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Ann Sutherland Harris

  • We are and have long been excited and inspired by the notion of human genius, because even if we ourselves are not — and the accomplishments of a genius are a measure of our own inferiority — nevertheless the idea that some human beings have achieved so much is exhilarating and makes us dream and discover some spark of talent that may be in ourselves.

    • Ann Sutherland Harris,
    • in Maggie Tripp, Woman in the Year 2000 ()

Ann Sutherland Harris, English-born U.S. arts educator

(1937)