Quotes by Miriam Beard

• It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, they typified for the Greeks.
• 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.
• One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness.
• Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.
• The results of philanthropy are always beyond calculation.