Century Quote by Mary Ritter Beard

“This was the part where Charlotte, heroine, remembered she was a twenty-first-century woman and a mother. This was Charlotte saying, Hell no!”

— Shannon Hale

I am stricken with the peculiar curse of being a 21st-century woman who makes more than the man she's living with - first with…

— Sandra Tsing Loh

“She was the quintessential twenty-first-century woman: She could build a high-rise in a Chanel suit and Jimmy Choos, give lessons in multitasking, and freeze…

— Donna Ball

To ignore [the] great social facts -- political facts, if you please -- and over-emphasize the old moral responsibility of the 'domestic' mother is…

— Mary Ritter Beard

“The hard part of humanity is history. All that's been done to human beings by other human beings. In the Rocky River Nature Preserve…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Who will dare to write a history of human goodness?

— Will Durant

The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error.

— Karl Popper

“The history of the human race has been one long quest to find new, novel things, and then kill, eat, or enslave them. There’s…

— Seanan McGuire

At the core of every moral code there is a picture of human nature, a map of the universe, and a version of history.…

— Walter Lippmann

“When we look back, it becomes clear that the acts and accomplishments of human beings are the signatures of history. Human signatures have created…

— Jean Sasson

There are more people living in freedom today than at any other time in the history of the human race.

— Mike Rounds

The web is just another stunning point in the two-hundred-thousand-year history of human beings on earth. The taming of fire; the discovery of penicillin;…

— Ellen Ullman