Mary Ritter Beard Quote

To ignore [the] great social facts — political facts, if you please — and over-emphasize the old moral responsibility of the 'domestic' mother is a hollow mockery and betrays a hopeless ignorance of industrial and urban conditions in the Twentieth Century.... Everything that counts in the common life is political.


Young Oxford (1900)


To ignore [the] great social facts — political facts, if you please — and over-emphasize the old moral responsibility of the 'domestic' mother is ...

To ignore [the] great social facts — political facts, if you please — and over-emphasize the old moral responsibility of the 'domestic' mother is ...

To ignore [the] great social facts — political facts, if you please — and over-emphasize the old moral responsibility of the 'domestic' mother is ...

To ignore [the] great social facts — political facts, if you please — and over-emphasize the old moral responsibility of the 'domestic' mother is ...