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

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.

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.

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

When I ran I was a first candidate to talk about how immigration was going be so damaging to the American people. When I first ran I talked about affirmative-action.

If we could see that everything, even tragedy, is a gift in diguise, we would then find the best way to nourish the soul.

It would be great if everyone chanted Hare Krishna. Everybody would benefit by doing it.

He that ceaseth to be a friend never was a good one.

Julie Christie was absolutely amazing in Away From Her. Brilliant movie. It was the moving story of a woman who forgets her own husband. Hillary Clinton calls it the feel good movie of the year.

I felt alien my whole life but I didn't feel alien because of my gender. Other people made me aware of my gender.

Mr. President, I love you, but you're wrong. (To Richard Nixon, on the Vietnam War)

Just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.

Be yourself. You're okay. And it really doesn't matter what other people think.