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 BeardViewed narrowly, all life is universal hunger and an expression of energy associated with it.
Mary Ritter BeardThe 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