Black people cannot and will not become integrated into American society on any terms but those of self-determination and autonomy.

Women's history is the primary tool for women's emancipation.

Women's history is women's right-an essential, indispensable heritage from which we can draw pride, comfort, courage, and long range vision.

The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences, and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone.

When I started working on women's history about thirty years ago, the field did not exist. People didn't think that women had a history worth knowing.

nursing was regarded as simply an extension of the unpaid services performed by the housewife - a characteristic attitude that haunts the profession to this day.

Women’s history is the primary tool for women’s emancipation.

Sometimes it is the methods of learning, more so, than what is learned, that is useful!

Heroes are not made. They are born out of circumstances and rise to the occasion when their spirit can no longer coexist with the hypocrisy of injustice to others.

We were enjoying one of those rare summers of utter freedom – no financial responsibility, no debts, no time owing to anybody.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Some other places were not so good but maybe we were not so good when we were in them.

See God in every person, place, and thing, and all will be well in your world.

What people get admired and appreciated for in community are their soft skills: their sense of humor and timing, their ability to listen, their courage and honesty, their capacity for empathy.

Nobody's seen Jesus in years.

The jolt that Tony Blair received 35,000ft above the Pacific Ocean was not normal turbulence.

Money doesn't make films. You just do it and take the initiative.