I long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives of strong women.

Ruth Benedict


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Japan likewise put her hopes of victory on a different basis from that prevalent in the United States. (...) Even when she was winning, her civilian statesmen, her High Command, and her soldiers repeated that this was no contest between armaments; it was pitting of our faith in things against their faith in spirit.

Ruth Benedict

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The trouble with life
isn't that there is no answer,
but that there are so many answers

Ruth Benedict

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I have always used the world of make-believe with a certain desperation.

Ruth Benedict


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The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers

Ruth Benedict


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The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.

Ruth Benedict

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Faith is the virtue of the storm, just as happiness is the virtue of sunshine.

Ruth Benedict

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No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking.

Ruth Benedict


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