Mary Ritter Beard

“The dogmatism of science has become a new orthodoxy, disseminated by the Media and a State educational system with a thoroughness and subtlety never before achieved in any human society.”

“The dynamic quality of history lies in its recovery of the past for the enrichment of the present.”

“The woman's movement of our day is a world-wide movement, and it is a movement that has its roots in all the great historic changes of the past two thousand years.”

“No document, however authentic, can tell the whole story.”

“Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums, who can't, and those in cemeteries.”

“The subjection of women is a reflection of the subjection of the human race to the course of nature.”

“Women have done more than their share in all the great crises of the world's history.”

“Unless the past is understood, the present cannot be.”

“The effort to make the world safe for democracy and then safe for the world has been a failure because the people of the world were not democratically minded.”

“Surely civilization is a dream of the civilized, if it is a dream of the uncivilized.”

“The truth cannot be stated simply, in a way that is quickly understood and quickly acted upon.”

“The first and most important of all the arts is the art of living.”

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

“History is a seamless web. And we could go backward and forward in it.”