“The woman's bill of rights is, unhappily, long overdue. It should have run along with the rights of man in the eighteenth century. Its drag as to time of official proclamation is a drag as to social vision. And even if equal rights were now written into the law of our land, it would be so inadequate today as a means to food, clothing and shelter for woman at large that what they would still be enjoying would be equality in disaster rather than in realistic privilege.” IfsMenShouldMeanLongStillsWould BeRunningTodayLawSocialEnjoyVisionRightsWrittenLandCenturyEqualShould HaveBillsPrivilegeDisasterOfficialsRealisticClothingsDragShelterWomens RightsEqual RightsInadequateBill Of RightsProclamationOverdue Author:Mary Ritter Beard
“Those who sit at the feast will continue to enjoy themselves even though the veil that separates them from the world of toiling reality below has been lifted by mass revolts and critics.” WorldHas BeensRealityEnjoyMassCriticsVeilsRevoltToiling Book:Making Women's History: The Essential Mary Ritter Beard Source: Making Women's History: The Essential Mary Ritter Beard
