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“Democracy cannot sustain itself amid a high degree of violence.”

Quote by Mary Ritter Beard

Book:A Woman Making History: Mary Ritter Beard Through Her Letters

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A Woman Making History: Mary Ritter Beard Through Her Letters

A Woman Making History: Mary Ritter Beard Through Her Letters is a compilation of letters from Mary Ritter Beard, an influential historian known for her work on the history of women and the American economy. The letters reveal her intellectual development, her thoughts on historical events, and her personal experiences. This collection offers a rare and intimate look at the life and work of one of the most significant historians of her era. more

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Mary Ritter Beard

Mary Ritter Beard was an American historian known for her research on women's history. Her book 'The American Woman: Her Past and Present' had a profound impact on gender studies. more

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“Despite the modern dogma to the effect that women were a subject sex until the nineteenth century 'emancipated' them from history, women in history had demonstrated strong wills and purposes, had made assertions, and had directed or influenced all human destiny, including their own, since human life began.”

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Author:Mary Ritter Beard

“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.”

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Book:A Woman Making History: Mary Ritter Beard Through Her Letters

Source: A Woman Making History: Mary Ritter Beard Through Her Letters

“Every great creative idea, formulated as a philosophy, has a social setting - in time, in a geographical location, in a political economy, in a matrix of interests and knowledge. It is not a free-swinging phenomenon like a balloon without moorings. It is not produced in a vacuum and, being creative, it does not work in a vacuum. Nurtured on things experienced and things known, it reaches out toward the unknown like a flower on a stalk growing out of the soil.”

Source: Making Women's History: The Essential Mary Ritter Beard

“The trade agreement has become a rather distinct feature of the American labor movement. ... It is based on the idea that labor shall accept the capitalist system of production and make terms of peace with it.”

Ideas Term Accepting Movement Labor Trade Productions Features Agreement Capitalist Trade Agreements Labor Movement

Author:Mary Ritter Beard

“The origin of the labor movement lies in self-defense.”

Self Lying Movement Labor Defense Self Defense Labor Movement

Book:A Short History of the American Labor Movement

Source: A Short History of the American Labor Movement

“the 'public' - a term often used in America to indicate the great metropolitan newspapers.”

America Used Term Media Newspapers Metropolitan

Book:A Short History of the American Labor Movement

Source: A Short History of the American Labor Movement

“Every revolution has its counter-revolution.”

Book:Making Women's History: The Essential Mary Ritter Beard

Source: Making Women's History: The Essential Mary Ritter Beard

“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.”

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Author:Mary Ritter Beard

“Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It had no mother.”

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Author:Germaine Greer

“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.”