Our national experience in Americanizing millions of Europeans whose chief wish was to become Americans has been a heady wine which has made us believe, as perhaps no nation before us has ever believed, that, given the slimmest chance, all peoples will pattern themselves upon our model.
Ruth BenedictThe trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers.
Ruth BenedictI long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives of strong women.
Ruth BenedictSuccess and failure in our own national economy will hang upon the degree to which we are able to work with races and nations whose social order and whose behavior and attitudes are strange to us.
Ruth Benedict