Bear Attack/history of Human-bear Relationships

Famous quotes containing the words bear, attack and/or history:

    “But I must bear my destiny as best I can, knowing well that there is no resisting the strength of necessity.”
    —Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)

    “Remote and ineffectual Don
    That dared attack my Chesterton.”
    —Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953)

    “[Men say:] “Don’t you know that we are your natural protectors?” But what is a woman afraid of on a lonely road after dark? The bears and wolves are all gone; there is nothing to be afraid of now but our natural protectors.”
    —Frances A. Griffin, U.S. suffragist. As quoted in History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 4, ch. 19, by Susan B. Anthony and Ida Husted Harper (1902)