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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. – Margaret Mead

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Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible. – Margaret Mead

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Never believe that a few caring people cant change the world. For, indeed, thats all who ever have. – Margaret Mead

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I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world. – Carl Sandburg

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I would often find myself, at the age of 21, at midnight, running down a dark street on my own with 10 men chasing me. And the fact they had cameras in their hands made that legal. – Sienna Miller

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