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.

- Mary Ritter Beard

Viewed narrowly, all life is universal hunger and an expression of energy associated with it.

- Mary Ritter Beard

Unless one's philosophy is all-inclusive, nothing can be understood.

- Mary Ritter Beard

We of the third sphere are unable to look at Europe or at Asia as they may survey each other. Wherever we go, across Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, no…

- Mary Ritter Beard

... the precedents for feminine self-expression run back through all the ages since the art of writing was invented. ... The era may witness the firs…

- Mary Ritter Beard

Democracy cannot sustain itself amid a high degree of violence.

- Mary Ritter Beard

Action without study fatal. Study without action is futile.

- Mary Ritter Beard

To ignore [the] great social facts -- political facts, if you please -- and over-emphasize the old moral responsibility of the 'domestic' mother is a…

- Mary Ritter Beard

Despite the modern dogma to the effect that women were a subject sex until the nineteenth century 'emancipated' them from history, women in history h…

- Mary Ritter Beard