43 Quotes by Mary Ritter Beard

The origin of the labor movement lies in self-defense ...

the 'public' - a term often used in America to indicate the great metropolitan newspapers.

Every revolution has its counter-revolution.

Comfort, however, easily merges into license.

Leisure for reverie, gay or somber, does much to enrich life.

... 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.

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.

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.

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?