. . . work even when I'm satisfied with it is never my child I love nor my servant I've brought to heel. It's always busy work I do with my left hand, and part of me watches grudging the wastes of a lifetime.
liberty is the one thing no man can have unless he grants it to others. - Ruth Benedict
liberty is the one thing no man can have unless he grants it to others.
- Ruth Benedict
The crucial differences which distinguish human societies and human beings are not biological. They are cultural. - Ruth Benedict
The crucial differences which distinguish human societies and human beings are not biological. They are cultural.
I have always used the world of make-believe with a certain desperation. - Ruth Benedict
I have always used the world of make-believe with a certain desperation.
I long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives of strong women. - Ruth Benedict
I long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives of strong women.
We do not see the lens through which we look. - Ruth Benedict
We do not see the lens through which we look.
The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences. - Ruth Benedict
The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.
The life-history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community. F… - Ruth Benedict
The life-history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community. F…
No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking. - Ruth Benedict
No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking.
It is my necessary breath of life to understand and expression is the only justification of life that I can feel without prodding. - Ruth Benedict
It is my necessary breath of life to understand and expression is the only justification of life that I can feel without prodding.
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