“. . . if I had been a man, self-respect, family pressure and the public opinion of my class would have pushed me into a money-making profession; as a mere woman I could carve out a career of disinterested research.” IfsMenSelfOpinionClassCareersResearchPressureMereProfessionMaking MoneySelf RespectDishesPublic OpinionDisinterested Book:My Apprenticeship Source: My Apprenticeship
“Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell.” IfsEnoughStrongFearHellPatientDreadProvidingIdlenessStrong EnoughNarcotics Author:Beatrice Webb
“If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a determined subordination of the whole nature to the one aim no trifling with time, which is passing, with strength which is only too limited.” IfsWorldWholeNatureAimDeterminedPassingBreadPassingsMortalsDemiseTriflingSubordination Book:The Diary of Beatrice Webb: Glitter Around and Darkness Within, 1873-1892 Source: The Diary of Beatrice Webb: Glitter Around and Darkness Within, 1873-1892
“If I ever felt inclined to be timid as I was going into a room hill of people, I would say to myself, "You're the cleverest member of one of the cleverest families in the cleverest class of the cleverest nation in the world-why should you be frightened?” PeopleIfsWorldShouldNationsFeltFearRoomsClassMembersHillsFrightened Author:Beatrice Webb
