Pamela

“I think the 1960s were really about consciousness, a unique moment when I became we.”
― Judith Nies, The Girl I Left Behind: A Personal History of the 1960s

“The greatest mistake is to think that we ever know why we do things...I suppose the nearest we can ever come to it is by getting what old people call 'experience.' But by the time we've got that we're no longer the persons who did the things we no longer understand. The trouble is, I suppose, that we change every moment; and the things we did stay.”
― Edith Wharton, The Buccaneers

“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”
― Judith Nies, The Girl I Left Behind: A Personal History of the 1960s

“As I’m sure you know, a good night’s sleep helps you perform well in school, and so if you are a student you should always get a good night’s sleep unless you have come to the good part of your book, and then you should stay up all night and let your schoolwork fall by the wayside, a phrase which means “flunk.” In”
― Lemony Snicket, The Austere Academy