You have been here only a short time, Mr. Barnard. You cannot know what it is to live here month upon month, year after year, brea...thing this infernal air, absorbing the miasma of barbarity that permeates these walls, especially this chamber.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Everything that was ever to happen to me in the future had its germ or impulse in the conditions of my life on Dover Street. My fr...iendships, my advantages and disadvantages, my gifts, my habits, my ambitions--these were the materials out of which I built my after life, in the open workshop of America. My days in the slums were pregnant with possibilities; it only needed the ripeness of events to make them fruit forth in realities. Steadily as I worked to win America, America advanced to lie at my feet. I was an heir, on Dover Street, awaiting maturity. I was a princess waiting to be led to the throne.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The most important gift anyone can give a girl is a belief in her own power as an individual, her value without reference to gende...r, her respect as a person with potential.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...expatriated Americans, even Henry James himself, have always seemed to me somewhat anchorless, rudderless, drifting before the ...wind.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For more than twenty-five years my mind had been deeply troubled by the fact that these mechanical and scientific achievements of ...man had outrun his intellectual and spiritual power. ...Throughout the Second World War this terrible problem hung in the back of my mind. As I write these words the problem and the danger are as threatening as ever. We hope our nation will survive, but in its effort to survive will it transform itself intellectually and spiritually into the image of the thing against which we fought?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...I still have faith occasionally in the brotherhood of man, and in spite of all the tragedies that have intervened since [1945],... believe that sometime, somehow, all the nations of the world can work together for the common good.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Barnard's greatest war service ... was the continuance of full-scale instruction in the liberal arts ... It was Barnard's responsi...bility to keep alive in the minds of young people the great liberal tradition of the past and the study of philosophy, of history, of Greek.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...at this stage in the advancement of women the best policy for them is not to talk much about the abstract principles of women's... rights but to do good work in any job they get, better work if possible than their male colleagues.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »