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

We can learn from history how past generations thought and acted, how they responded to the demands of their time and how they solved their problems.….

Men develop ideas and systems of explanation by absorbing past knowledge and critiquing and superseding it. Women, ignorant of their own history [do]….

The effect on men has been very bad, too, of the omission of women's history, because men have been given the impression that they're much more impor….

. . . black women . . . are trained from childhood to become workers, and expect to be financially self-supporting for most of their lives. They know….

Autonomy means women defining themselves and the values by which they will live, and beginning to think of institutional arrangements which will orde….

Long-term commitment to an intimate relationship with one person of whatever sex is an essential need that people have in order to breed the qualitie….

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

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

[There is a] depth and urgency of the search of Jewish and Christian women for connection to the Divine, which found expression in more than 1000 yea….

The system of patriarchy is a historic construct; it has a beginning; it will have an end. Its time seems to have nearly run its course—it no longer ….

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 ….

The appeal of the New Right is simply that it seems to promise that nothing will change in the domestic realm. People are terrified of change there, ….

Everything that explains the world has in fact explained a world that does not exist, a world in which men are at the center of the human enterprise ….

For boys, the family was the place from which one sprang and to which one returned for comfort and support, but the field of action was the larger wo….

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