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

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.

[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 years of feminist Bible criticism and religious re-visioning.

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

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, because it's the last humanizing force left in society, and they think, correctly, that it must be retained.

. . . black women . . . are trained from childhood to become workers, and expect to be financially self-supporting for most of their lives. They know they will have to work, whether they are married or single work to them, unlike to white women, is not a liberating goal, but rather an imposed lifelong necessity.

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

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 qualities out of which nurturing thought can rise.

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