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Ruth Benedict: I long to...

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

Source: Jan 1917; in An Anthropologist at Work, by Margaret Mead, 1951.
-- Ruth Benedict, (Jun 6 1887-1948), US anthropologist; She was an expert on American Indian tribes; wrote classic Patterns of Culture, 1934; Race, Science and Politics, 1940.


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