“The volumes which record the history of the human race are filled with the deeds and the words of great men ... [but] The Twentieth Century Woman ... questions the completeness of the story.” MenHumansStoriesRaceHistoryRecordsCenturyFilledDeedsHuman RaceGreat MenSexismVolumeTwentieth CenturyCompleteness Book:A Woman Making History: Mary Ritter Beard Through Her Letters Source: A Woman Making History: Mary Ritter Beard Through Her Letters
“For hundreds of years the use of the word 'man' has troubled critical scholars, careful translators, and lawyers. Difficulties occur whenever and wherever it is important for truth-seeking purposes to know what is being talked about and the context gives no intimation whether 'man' means just a human being irrespective of sex or means a masculine being and none other.” KnowsMenGivingYearsHumansMeanImportantUsePurposeSexHuman BeingsDifficultyCarefulSeekingCriticalLawyerScholarMasculineTranslators Author:Mary Ritter Beard
“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
“Woman's success in lifting men out of their way of life nearly resembling that of the beasts who merely hunted and fished for food, who found shelter where they could in jungles, in trees, and caves was a civilizing triumph.” MenWayFoundTreeCivilizationTriumphBeastHuntingShelterCavesJungleLiftingHunted Author:Mary Ritter Beard
“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.” MenMindHumansWomenHistoricalMythFantasticHuman MindDogmaWomens RightsSubjectionWomen RightsWomen Right Book:Making Women's History: The Essential Mary Ritter Beard Source: Making Women's History: The Essential Mary Ritter Beard
