If you want to have a finished product, at some point you have to say “enough.”
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It is more difficult to research women’s lives than it is men’s.
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Women have more often worked within the home, working equally as hard
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There is always more to tell.
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There has always been a tendency – race notwithstanding.
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That makes history so appealing and so central to what I am trying to do.
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I didn’t study history when I was in college, none at all, and only started to do graduate study when my children were going to graduate school.
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What first intrigued me was this desire to understand my family and put it in the context of American history.
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It is more difficult to research women’s lives than it is men’s.
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To believe that women’s contributions have been less important than men’s contributions because women are usually less public people.
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You have to decide what is extraneous and what is central.
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That doesn’t mean that your curiosity is ever totally satisfied.
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When we look at women, we have to look at the significance of their work in a different way from the way we look at it with men.
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