Mary Ritter Beard Quotes
- Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.
- Woman's success in lifting men out of their way of life nearly resembling that of the beasts who merely hunted and fished for food, who…
- The results of philanthropy are always beyond calculation.
- The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever created by the human mind.
- Action without study fatal. Study without action is futile....
- It is grievous to read the papers in most respects, I agree. More and more I skim the headlines only, for one can be sure…
- In their (women) quest for rights they have naturally placed emphasis on their wrongs rather than their achievements and possessions, and have retold history as…
- Those who sit at the feast will continue to enjoy themselves even though the veil that separates them from the world of toiling reality below…
- Viewed narrowly, all life is universal hunger and an expression of energy associated with it.