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.

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.

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

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.

Know the One - the Self, and you'll know the All.

Your friends and enemies are defined the moment you come to this world.

Any replacement to the current copyright position (life plus 70 years) needs to have an answer lined up for this, and similar, messy edge cases.

I like old cars, old watches, anything with a vintage, antique kind of a feel to it. I'm just more in tune with that than anything else.

When you are not honoring the present moment by allowing it to be, you are creating drama.

The man who has a girl in every port is not a sailor but a wholesaler.

Instead of trying to manufacture feelings, use the way you already feel. Or at least add that in.

Inhibition is no good provider for a needy man, Inhibition, which does men great harm and great good. Inhibition attaches to poverty, boldness to wealth.

My father was a prosperous hatter-farmer - making hats for the local markets during the winter months, tilling his little ten-acre farm during the summer time.

I hated it. I hated this. I hated feeling so terrible because of someone else.