Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
Margaret Mead
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- As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.
- It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.
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- A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.