What is new is not bisexuality, but rather the widening of our awareness and acceptance of human capacities for sexual love.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes that the concept of bisexuality is not new, but our growing awareness and acceptance of sexual diversity is.
Margaret Mead highlights that the acceptance of bisexuality reflects a broader understanding of human sexuality, which has always existed in various forms. This growing awareness signifies an important shift in societal norms, encouraging open-mindedness and inclusivity regarding different sexual orientations and capacities for love.
In practice
In a workshop about sexual diversity, this quote serves to underline the importance of understanding sexual love in all its forms.
Earth Day is the first holy day which transcends all national borders, yet preserves all geographical integrities, spans mountains and oceans and time belts, and yet brings people all over the world into one resonating accord, is devoted to the preservation of the harmony in nature and yet draws upon the triumphs of technology, the measurement of time, and instantaneous communication through space.
Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.
Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.
We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.
EARTH DAY uses one of humanity's great discoveries, the discovery of anniversaries by which, throughout time, human beings have kept their sorrows and their joys, their victories, their revelations and their obligations alive, for re-celebration and re-dedication another year, another decade, another century, another eon.
American society is very like a fish society. . . . Among certain species of fish, the only thing which determines order of dominance is length of time in the fishbowl. The oldest resident picks on the newest resident, and if the newest resident is removed to a new bowl, he, as oldest resident, will pick on the newcomers.
I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it's so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
Of all the bright cruel lies they tell you, the cruelest is the one called love.
When your hands leap towards mine, love, what do they bring me in flight?
Maybe it's just hiding somewhere. Or gone on a trip to come home. But falling in love is always a pretty crazy thing. It might appear out of the blue and just grab you. Who knows β maybe even tomorrow.
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