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1 " Leave it to a librarian to point out the alliteration in my life’s tragedies. "
― , The Lions of Fifth Avenue
2 " It’s time to expand our view of the household, and throw off the shackles of gender oppression. I can work, I can have a child, and I can love whomever I like. Just as you can. "
3 " History is made by people in power making decisions, and their notes and writings reveal the decision-making process. "
4 " After the first experience of the death of someone you love, each later one is exponentially more painful, because you know how hard it will be to recover from the loss. "
5 " The loss of the community of women stung hardest, as she had no similar role models in her life. "
6 " feel like with every year, my brain is a sponge that soaks up painful experiences like water, "
7 " After the first experience of the death of someone you love, each later one is exponentially more painful, because you know how hard it will be to recover from "
8 " Then again, what child cares about their parent’s life before they were born? It’s not until it’s too late that the resonance of the earlier times, and how they echo through the next generation, are deemed valuable. "
9 " Stanford and heading to the East Coast with a friend. "
10 " To live in a building that spilled over with books and knowledge, with its shelves of maps and newspapers from around the world, yet to feel so utterly stifled, was torture. "
11 " Inspiration, once again, came from the day’s speaker, a woman named Inez Haynes Gillmore, who read from a series of articles she’d published in Harper’s Bazaar, titled “Confessions of an Alien.” “‘It seems to me,’” began Inez, “‘I hang in a void midway between two spheres—the man’s sphere and the woman’s sphere. The duties and pleasure of the average woman bore and irritate. The duties and pleasures of the average man interest and allure. I soon found that it was a feeling which I shared with the majority of my kind. I have never met a man who at any time wanted to be a woman. I have met few women who have not at some time or other wanted to be men. "
12 " Mom is still a force of nature,” said Sadie. “Even lying in bed, she’s busy directing traffic. "
13 " While she understood his shock, she couldn’t help but observe that—once again—she was being dictated to, being told what she could do and where she could go. His fury made him ugly. She sat in one of the chairs and waited for his face to soften. They’d been together for so long, she’d forgotten to see him as a man, as a partner. Instead, he’d become someone else to have to take care of, another shirt to wash, another meal to cook. "