"We are far more effective on the inside looking out than the outside looking in."

“I'll be glad to leave here. I feel like eating palm trees. I don't like this place. It's for people with arthritis. They come here to play golf and to die.”

“If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat.”

“The more clearly we recognize how deep our commitment to self-protection operates in our relational style and the more courageously we face the ugliness of protecting ourselves rather than loving others, the more we'll shift our direction.”

“For a fledging democratic system to succeed, we need citizens who understand the procedures, believe in democratic rules and get personally involved.”

“The difference between a theatre with and without an audience is enormous. There is a palpable, critical energy created by the presence of the audience.”

“In brief, we who write are all in the same boat, as if we are survivors of torpedoes, and we hope to reach the shores of thought with strength for more activity.”

Source : Mary Ritter Beard, Nancy F. Cott (1991). “A Woman Making History: Mary Ritter Beard Through Her Letters”, p.229, Yale University Press

“Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.”

“Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy. Peace does not dwell in outward things, but in the heart prepared to wait trustfully and quietly on Him who has all things safely in His hands.”