Quotes by Mary Ritter Beard

Mary Ritter Beard

… 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.

Art

Running

Writing

Action without study fatal. Study without action is futile.

Action

Study

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

Inspirational

Inspiring

Life

Comfort, however, easily merges into license.

Comfort

License

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?

Book

Lasts

Pages

Democracy cannot sustain itself amid a high degree of violence.

Degrees

Democracy

Violence

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.

Sex

Strong

Women

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.

Flower

Ideas

Philosophy

Every revolution has its counter-revolution.

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.

Mean

Men

Sex

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Achievement

Action

Age

Agency

Agreement

America

Art

Believe

Boat

Book

Calculations

Care

Cities

Civilization

Comfort

Defense

Degrees

Democracy

Doe

Energy

Europe

Expression

Feminism

Florence

Flower

Gay

Greek

Helping Others

Historical

History

Hunting

Ideas

Ignorance

Inspirational

Inspiring

Journalism

Lasts

License

Life

Long

Looks

Lying

Matter

Mean

Media

Men

Mind

Mother

Movement

One Day

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Quotes by Mary Ritter Beard

Mary Ritter Beard

Action without study fatal. Study without action is futile.

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

Comfort, however, easily merges into license.

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?

Democracy cannot sustain itself amid a high degree of violence.

Every revolution has its counter-revolution.

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