Motherhood Is Always An Act Of Courage.

An Interesting Thing About Book Groups, It Seems To Me, Is That There Is No Correlation Between A Brilliant Book And A Brilliant Discussion. The First Seems Sometimes Even To Undermine The Second.

No One Sits On The Stoop When She's A Kid And Thinks, 'i Want To Be A Biographer When I Grow Up,'

I'm A Sucker For Lost Worlds. I Was Nostalgic Even As A Child. I Was Happiest In My Hometown Library In Adams, Mass., Where Nothing Seemed To Change.

Power Has For So Long Been A Male Construct That It Distorted The Shape Of The First Women Who Tried It On, Only To Find Themselves In A Sort Of Straitjacket.

Women Enjoyed Rights In Egypt They Would Not Again Enjoy For More Than 2,000 Years. They Owned Ships, Ran Vineyards, Filed Lawsuits, Practiced Medicine. Their Husbands Supported Them After Divorce. Their Power Was Unprecedented.