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. – Miriam Beard
Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living. – Miriam Beard
One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness. – Miriam Beard
Our only hope for the redemption of woman from the thralldom of dress lies in the belief that her hitherto limited sphere of activities has been so insufficient for her intellectual occupations that she has been forced to expend her thoughts in decorating her person, instead of enlarging her mind. – Mercy B. Jackson