Mary Ritter Beard famous quotes

07-20-2025

Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.
-- Mary Ritter Beard

#Inspirational #Inspiring #Travel
The results of philanthropy are always beyond calculation.
-- Mary Ritter Beard

#Philanthropy #Results
Leisure for reverie, gay or somber, does much to enrich life.
-- Mary Ritter Beard

#Gay #One Day #Leisure
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 found shelter where they could in jungles, in trees, and caves was a civilizing triumph.
-- Mary Ritter Beard

#Men #Hunting #Tree
... the precedents for feminine self-expression run back through all the ages since the art of writing was invented. ... The era may witness the first female engineer, motor truck chauffeur, radio broadcaster, head of an aviation school, or federal prohibition officer, but it has not produced the first thinking, creative, and writing woman by any means.
-- Mary Ritter Beard

#Running #Art #School
Every great creative idea, formulated as a philosophy, has a social setting - in time, in a geographical location, in a political economy, in a matrix of interests and knowledge. It is not a free-swinging phenomenon like a balloon without moorings. It is not produced in a vacuum and, being creative, it does not work in a vacuum. Nurtured on things experienced and things known, it reaches out toward the unknown like a flower on a stalk growing out of the soil.
-- Mary Ritter Beard

#Philosophy #Flower #Ideas
Viewed narrowly, all life is universal hunger and an expression of energy associated with it.
-- Mary Ritter Beard

#Expression #History #Energy
Despite the modern dogma to the effect that women were a subject sex until the nineteenth century 'emancipated' them from history, women in history had demonstrated strong wills and purposes, had made assertions, and had directed or influenced all human destiny, including their own, since human life began.
-- Mary Ritter Beard

#Strong #Sex #Women
Action without study fatal. Study without action is futile....
-- Mary Ritter Beard

#Action #Study
Every revolution has its counter-revolution.
-- Mary Ritter Beard

#Revolution
For hundreds of years the use of the word 'man' has troubled critical scholars, careful translators, and lawyers. Difficulties occur whenever and wherever it is important for truth-seeking purposes to know what is being talked about and the context gives no intimation whether 'man' means just a human being irrespective of sex or means a masculine being and none other.
-- Mary Ritter Beard

#Sex #Mean #Men
The woman's bill of rights is, unhappily, long overdue. It should have run along with the rights of man in the eighteenth century. Its drag as to time of official proclamation is a drag as to social vision. And even if equal rights were now written into the law of our land, it would be so inadequate today as a means to food, clothing and shelter for woman at large that what they would still be enjoying would be equality in disaster rather than in realistic privilege.
-- Mary Ritter Beard

#Running #Mean #Men
Could anyone fail to be depressed by a book he or she has published? Don't we always outgrow them the moment the last page has been written?
-- Mary Ritter Beard

#Book #Pages #Lasts
In brief, we who write are all in the same boat, as if we are survivors of torpedoes, and we hope to reach the shores of thought with strength for more activity.
-- Mary Ritter Beard

#Writing #Survivor #Boat
To ignore [the] great social facts -- political facts, if you please -- and over-emphasize the old moral responsibility of the 'domestic' mother is a hollow mockery and betrays a hopeless ignorance of industrial and urban conditions in the Twentieth Century. ... Everything that counts in the common life is political.
-- Mary Ritter Beard

#Mother #Ignorance #Responsibility
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.
-- Mary Ritter Beard

#Men #Historical #Mind
the 'public' - a term often used in America to indicate the great metropolitan newspapers.
-- Mary Ritter Beard

#Media #America #Metropolitan
The origin of the labor movement lies in self-defense ...
-- Mary Ritter Beard

#Lying #Self #Defense
The trade agreement has become a rather distinct feature of the American labor movement. ... It is based on the idea that labor shall accept the capitalist system of production and make terms of peace with it.
-- Mary Ritter Beard

#Agreement #Ideas #Movement
The volumes which record the history of the human race are filled with the deeds and the words of great men ... [but] The Twentieth Century Woman ... questions the completeness of the story.
-- Mary Ritter Beard

#Men #Race #History
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 what is carried beneath them quite automatically, if one has long been a reader of the press journalism.
-- Mary Ritter Beard

#Long #Paper #Journalism
Democracy cannot sustain itself amid a high degree of violence.
-- Mary Ritter Beard

#Democracy #Violence #Degrees
Unless one's philosophy is all-inclusive, nothing can be understood.
-- Mary Ritter Beard

#Philosophy #Helping Others #People
In matters pertaining to the care of life there has been no marked gain over Greek and Roman antiquity.
-- Mary Ritter Beard

#Greek #Matter #Gains
History has been conceived--and with high justification in the records--as the human struggle for civilization against barbarism in different ages and places, from the beginning of human societies.
-- Mary Ritter Beard

#Struggle #Civilization #Age
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 has been lifted by mass revolts and critics.
-- Mary Ritter Beard

#Reality #World #Veils
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 a story of their long martyrdom
-- Mary Ritter Beard

#Rights #Long #Achievement

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