Mary Ritter Beard

Wherever we go, across the Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as 'the bizarre'. Things astonish us, when we travel, that surprise nobody else.

The results of philanthropy are always beyond calculation.

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.

Deep down, there is in the substance of the cosmos a primordial disposition, sui generis, for self-arrangement and self-involution.

Technology is characterized by constant change, rapid innovation, creative destruction, and revolutionary products.

I just had an idea that went right over my head.