The higher one climbs, the lonelier one is.

- Mary Barnett Gilson

Probably nothing in the experience of the rank and file of workers causes more bitterness and envy than the realization which comes sooner or later t…

- Mary Barnett Gilson

...there are persons who seem to have overcome obstacles and by character and perseverance to have risen to the top. But we have no record of the num…

- Mary Barnett Gilson

... work is only part of a man's life; play, family, church, individual and group contacts, educational opportunities, the intelligent exercise of ci…

- Mary Barnett Gilson

... until opportunity is as free from sex discrimination as the right to vote finally came to be, no man has any right to criticize women for failure…

- Mary Barnett Gilson

The new supplants the old. Yet men's minds are stuffed with outworn bunk. Educating the young in the latest findings of authorities and scholars in t…

- Mary Barnett Gilson

During the first World War women in the United States had a chance to try their capacities in wider fields of executive leadershipin industry. Must w…

- Mary Barnett Gilson

Until the sky is the limit [for women], as it is for men, men as well as women will suffer, because all society is affected when half of it is denied…

- Mary Barnett Gilson

I believe that all women of working ages and physical capacity, regardless of income, should be expected to earn their livings either in or out of th…

- Mary Barnett Gilson