Mary Ritter Beard America Quotations

It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, they typified for the Greeks.

One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness.

Wherever we go, across the Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as 'the bizarre'. Things astonish us, when we travel, that surprise nobody else.

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