But if our sex would but well consider and rationally ponder, they will perceive and find that it is neither words nor place that can advance them, but worth and merit.
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MARGARET MEAD It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil a... MARGARET MEAD One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home... MARGARET MEAD Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. ... MARGARET MEAD Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire. MARGARET MEAD We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare ... MARGARET MEAD Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be wom... MARGARET MEAD I want my careless song to strike no minor key; no fiend to stand between my body's Southern son... MARGARET WALKER Now when you hates you shrinks up inside and gets littler and you squeezes your heart tight and you ... MARGARET WALKER The Word of fire burns today On the lips of our prophets in an evil age. MARGARET WALKER What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things. MARGARET MEAD My uncle Sammy was an angry man. He had printed on his tombstone: What are you looking at? MARGARET SMITH Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy. MARGARET THATCHER Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome. MARGARET ATWOOD Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan. MARGARET THATCHER Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist. MARGARET ATWOOD And I believe that public broadcasting has an important trust with the American people, it's an ... MARGARET SPELLINGS And I think that's righteous, I think that's what parents want to know. They want to know wh... MARGARET SPELLINGS In Connecticut, my understanding, although I haven't seen the actual litigation, is that they wa... MARGARET SPELLINGS For too long, actually, we have either said you're this or that. MARGARET SPELLINGS There's lots of institutions and lots of different cultures, and so that's the kind of thing... MARGARET SPELLINGS I think it'd be useful for parents to know kind of what is the culture of an institution. MARGARET SPELLINGS It's a hard process to navigate... to figure out where your kid ought to go to college. MARGARET SPELLINGS I think all kinds of parents are different in what they're seeking. MARGARET SPELLINGS We know that if we're going to remain economically competitive in the world, and viable as a civ... MARGARET SPELLINGS But the other notion is, we also believe that those folks closest on the ground that we're holdi... MARGARET SPELLINGS Again, the truth of the matter is we haven't paid that much attention to high school accountabil... MARGARET SPELLINGS We at the Department of Education are going to provide technical assistance; I've committed $14 ... MARGARET SPELLINGS We want to obviously foster a relationship that we're a partner with states; that we all share t... MARGARET SPELLINGS I mean, one thing I know about change is we are not going to close the achievement gap without educa... MARGARET SPELLINGS The long and short of it is, we need more rigor in all kinds of programs. MARGARET SPELLINGS I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and... MARGARET SPELLINGS What we know is the workplace is more demanding than ever before. MARGARET SPELLINGS Well, one of them is annual assessment in grades 3-8. It's integral to the implementation of eve... MARGARET SPELLINGS My understanding is that Kansas, Massachusetts, they've been more pioneers on the special educat... MARGARET SPELLINGS And I think that we in America need to understand that many schools need improvement, and particular... MARGARET SPELLINGS Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? 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MARGARET VALOIS Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is t... MARGARET MEAD I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person. MARGARET MEAD The institution of marriage in all societies is a pattern within which the strains put by civilizati... MARGARET MEAD Happiness is a garden walled with glass: there's no way in or out. In Paradise there are no stories,... MARGARET ATWOOD Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children. MARGARET MEAD You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive. MARGARET THATCHER I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce. MARGARET MEAD Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression. MARGARET MEAD Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's ... MARGARET MEAD Throughout history females have picked providers. males have picked anything. MARGARET MEAD Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do. MARGARET MEAD If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any ... MARGARET MEAD We have nowhere else to go... this is all we have. MARGARET MEAD If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting
values, we must recognize the whole gamu... MARGARET MEAD Is it eradicating evil? Or are we like children, left alone in the house at night, who light candle ... MARGARET WEIS If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman. -Margaret Thatcher. MARGARET THATCHER The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied t... MARGARET THATCHER It was sheer professionalism and inspiration and the fact that you really cannot have people marchin... MARGARET THATCHER In politics if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman. MARGARET THATCHER Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. MARGARET THATCHER Say you’ll marry me when I come back or, before God, I won’t go. I’ll stay around here and pla... MARGARET MITCHELL Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doi... MARGARET THATCHER Make up your mind to this. If you are different, you are isolated, not only from people of your own ... MARGARET MITCHELL Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells ... MARGARET ATWOOD Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results. MARGARET ATWOOD Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it i... MARGARET MEAD Longed for him. Got him. Shit. MARGARET ATWOOD Children must be taught how to think, not what to think. MARGARET MEAD If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you ... MARGARET ATWOOD But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind eve... MARGARET ATWOOD I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed an... MARGARET ATWOOD I wonder which is preferable, to walk around all your life swollen up with your own secrets until yo... MARGARET ATWOOD Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. MARGARET THATCHER If i thought this would never happen again I would die. But this is wrong, nobody dies from lac... MARGARET ATWOOD Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. MARGARET MITCHELL Hatred would have been easier. With hatred, I would have known what to do. Hatred is clear, metallic... MARGARET ATWOOD That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn't even an... MARGARET ATWOOD There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- "Wanting to meet a... MARGARET ATWOOD Aunt Mercy put down her tiles, one at a time. I-T-C-H-I-N. Aunt Grace leaned closer to the boar... MARGARET STOHL We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of pr... MARGARET ATWOOD But remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withhold or bestow it... MARGARET ATWOOD Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Wat... MARGARET ATWOOD The way to get a man interested and to hold his interest was to talk about himself, and then gradual... MARGARET MITCHELL Coming to terms with the rhythms of women's lives means coming to terms with life itself, accepting ... MARGARET MEAD To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society. MARGARET OLIPHANT The incomprehensibleness of women is an old theory, but what is that to the curious wondering observ... MARGARET OLIPHANT Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetual... MARGARET FULLER One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex. MARGARET THATCHER For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elder... MARGARET MEAD Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they g... MARGARET HALSEY People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My messa... MARGARET THATCHER I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it. MARGARET THATCHER Nature provides exceptions to every rule. MARGARET FULLER The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it. MARGARET DRABBLE The south produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors and lawyers and poets, but certainly... MARGARET MITCHELL I am extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end. MARGARET THATCHER Our treatment of both older people and children reflects the value we place on independence and auto... MARGARET MEAD Our humility rest upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinite... MARGARET MEAD