Mary Ritter Beard

Viewed narrowly, all life is universal hunger and an expression of energy associated with it.

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

One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness.

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.

It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, they typified for the Greeks.