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“History never repeats itself, historians do.”
“The writer of history, I believe, has a number of duties vis--vis the reader, if he wants to keep him reading. The first is to distill. He must do the preliminary work for the reader, assemble the ...”
“Moynihan, when he was ambassador to the United Nations, produced the same effect when he attacked the Third World. These attacks aroused great admiration here; for example, when he denounced Idi Am...”
“If there was one thing I had learned. . . it was that politics was a damn dirty business.”
“There is machinery in the mind that is consciousness. Knowing the machine is the dawn of a new era.”
“The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.”
“Psychology has a long past, yet its real history is short.”
“Myths are what remain once the history of an event has been forgotten or lost to time. Myths are like the memory of ones first crush; the pain and longing one felt at that time is forgotten, but th...”
“I am, apparently, of that rare breed that likes to write. The demands of a chapter pull me from bed in the morning, and regardless of how well I think I know the day's road ahead, there are always ...”
“The stream of Time, irresistible, ever moving, carries off and bears away all things that come to birth and plunges them into utter darkness, both deeds of no account and deeds which are mighty and...”
“I don't think there's any deep psychological reason. It isn't comparable, say, to America's involvement with Vietnam and the emotional scars that that has left behind. A much more cogent way of loo...”
“And in the act of making things, just by living their daily lives, they also make history. Knitting is clothing made in spare moments, or round the fire, whenever women gathered together... It's so...”
“The study of history is useful to the historian by teaching him his ignorance of women.”
“History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are. ”
“It is better to believe in men too rashly, and regret, than believe too meanly. Men could be more than they are, if they would try for it. He has shown them that.”
“Mother, before God," I say, my voice shaking with tears, "I swear that I have to believe that there is more for me in life than being wife to one man after another, and hoping not to die in childbi...”
“Be a wife of whom he can make no complaint, Margaret. That is the best advice I can give to you. You will be his wife; that is to be his servant, his possession. He will be your master. You had bet...”
“I'm interested in the way in which the past affects the present and I think that if we understand a good deal more about history, we automatically understand a great more about contemporary life.”
“If you think theres a thinganythingwomen didnt do in the past, youre wrong.”
“Whatever you do today, impacts your historicity.”
