"It's a shame for women's history to be all about men--first boys, then other boys, then men men men. It reminds me of the way our school history textbooks were all about wars and elections, one war after another, with the dull periods of peace skimmed over whenever they occurred. (Our teachers deplored this and added extra units about social history and protest movements, but that was still the message of the books.)"

-- Elizabeth Kostova

#Teacher Quotes #War Quotes #Book Quotes

“Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.”
“We tell our thoughts, like our children, to put on their hats and coats before they go out.”
“Never, if you can possibly help it, write a novel. It is, in the first place, a thoroughly unsocial act. It makes one obnoxious to one's family and to one's friends. One sits about for many weeks, months, even years, in the worst cases, in a state of stupefaction.”
“What we have in common is what keeps us apart.”

Source : Louise Bernikow (1981). “Among women”, HarperCollins
“I'm a grown man. You know, I've been in a lot of scrapes, but I never felt like I got so - there are probably a lot of things I should have done that I didn't do.”
“I'm the youngest of 12 children. And although I was the youngest, I tried to organize things in my family. When there were disputes, I tried to mediate.”
“Whatever you say it is, is simply what YOU SAY it is.”
“Materialist philosophies that treat human beings as machines or animals possess the high ground in our culture - academia, the most powerful media and many of our courts.”

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