Pamela

“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

“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 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

“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.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Choice