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Mary Ritter Beard Quotes: The volumes which record the history of the human race are filled with the deeds and the words of great men ... [but] The Twentieth Century Woman ... questions the completeness of the story.
         

The volumes which record the history of the human race are filled with the deeds and the words of great men ... [but] The Twentieth Century Woman ... questions the completeness of the story.


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



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In their (women) quest for rights they have naturally placed emphasis on their wrongs rather than their achievements and possessions, and have retold history as a story of their long martyrdom



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Action without study fatal. Study without action is futile.



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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.

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.



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.

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.



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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?



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Every revolution has its counter-revolution.



Those who sit at the feast will continue to enjoy themselves even though the veil that separates them from the world of toiling reality below has been lifted by mass revolts and critics.

Those who sit at the feast will continue to enjoy themselves even though the veil that separates them from the world of toiling reality below has been lifted by mass revolts and critics.





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