"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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Source : Mary Ritter Beard, Ann J. Lane (1977). “Making Women's History: The Essential Mary Ritter Beard”, p.185, Feminist Press at CUNY

Mary Ritter Beard

#Men Quotes #Historical Quotes #Mind Quotes

“There's kind of an unwritten rule, Don't call your captain out at a Ryder Cup, win, loss or draw, you just don't.”
“We owe it to our children to give them a dignified and hopeful future.”
“and someday, fat innkeepers will bow to me.”
“We should have a very limited federal government.”

Source : "Anderson Cooper 360" with Soledad O'Brien, transcripts.cnn.com. January 27, 2011.
“I hope the Great Heavenly Father, who will look down upon us, will give all the tribes his blessing, that we may go forth in peace, and live in peace all our days, and that He will look down upon our children and finally lift us far above this earth.”
“Let me die a youngman's death not a clean and in-between- the-sheets, holy-water death.”

Source : 1967 'Let Me Die AYoungman's Death'.
“I am not looking to be understood or liked. Like me or not, I don't care. I am an outsider, that is the way I was brought up.”
“Luck is a goddess not to be coerced and forcibly wooed by those who seek her favours. From such masterful spirits she turns away. But it happens sometimes that, if we put our hand in hers with the humble trust of a little child, she will have pity on us, and not fail us in our hour of need.”

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