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

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

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.

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

I jump for joy every day. My body pulses with joy, and my vibration soars. I feel amazing.

It’s always been you, Paige. I’ve waited my whole life for you. You’re the air I breathe, my heart and soul. Without you, I’m in hell.

Whatever made me the way I am left me hollow, empty inside, unable to feel. It doesn't seem like a big deal.

When they asked Michelangelo how he made his statue of David he is reported to have said "It is easy. You just chip away the stone that doesn't look like David."

The world is indeed only a small tide pool; disturb one part and the rest is threatened.

The 'leisured' wife was a badge of achievement, the ornament to hard work and virtue for families on the way up.

I still feel threatened by academics, but my books have a lot of academic in-jokes and everybody assumes I went to university and studied English.

The older I get, the more clearly I remember things that never happened.

Never waste a lie; you never know when you may need it.

No one is really going to help you or give you direction. In fact, the odds are against you.