"If I ever felt inclined to be timid as I was going into a room hill of people, I would say to myself, You're the cleverest member of one of the cleverest families in the cleverest class of the cleverest nation in the world-why should you be frightened?"
Beatrice Webb was an English sociologist, economist, and social reformer associated with the Fabian Society. With Sidney Webb, she co-founded the London School of Economics and helped shape modern social policy debates in Britain.