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“Women were supposed to be seen and not heard.”
― The Girl I Left Behind: A Personal History of the 1960s
― The Girl I Left Behind: A Personal History of the 1960s
“I explained to her how the international corporations and banks that came to my school refused to interview women for jobs because women, they said, could not be in business. She”
― The Girl I Left Behind: A Personal History of the 1960s
― The Girl I Left Behind: A Personal History of the 1960s
“Staring at the stars was like staring backward in time, since some stars are so far away that their light takes millions of years just to reach us. That we see stars not as they look now, but as they were when dinosaurs roamed the earth. The whole concept just struck me as…amazing somehow.”
― The Choice
― The Choice
“I think the 1960s were really about consciousness, a unique moment when I became we.”
― The Girl I Left Behind: A Personal History of the 1960s
― The Girl I Left Behind: A Personal History of the 1960s
“It’s the rich what gets the pleasure, it’s the poor what gets the blame.’ I”
― The Americans: Letters from America 1969–1979
― The Americans: Letters from America 1969–1979
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