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Margaret Mead Quotes: Each suburban housewife spends her time presiding over a power plant sufficient to have staffed the palace of a Roman emperor with a hundred slaves.
         

Each suburban housewife spends her time presiding over a power plant sufficient to have staffed the palace of a Roman emperor with a hundred slaves.


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Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.



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