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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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.
ADELE LOGAN ALEXANDERIf you want to have a finished product, at some point you have to say “enough.”
ADELE LOGAN ALEXANDERWomen have more often worked within the home, working equally as hard
ADELE LOGAN ALEXANDERI would argue, but not always out there where they’re counted, not always up there in the labor unions, certainly not in leadership positions.
ADELE LOGAN ALEXANDERThat doesn’t mean that your curiosity is ever totally satisfied.
ADELE LOGAN ALEXANDERAnd how those stories relate to the larger picture of American history.
ADELE LOGAN ALEXANDERThere has always been a tendency – race notwithstanding.
ADELE LOGAN ALEXANDERTo believe that women’s contributions have been less important than men’s contributions because women are usually less public people.
ADELE LOGAN ALEXANDERThat makes history so appealing and so central to what I am trying to do.
ADELE LOGAN ALEXANDERUltimately a historian has to put together a cohesive work.
ADELE LOGAN ALEXANDERIt is more difficult to research women’s lives than it is men’s.
ADELE LOGAN ALEXANDERI have to throw in on a personal note that I didn’t like history when I was in high school.
ADELE LOGAN ALEXANDERI 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.
ADELE LOGAN ALEXANDERIt is important for us to remember that black people have been patriotic and have fought for that American dream in every American war.
ADELE LOGAN ALEXANDERYou have to decide what is extraneous and what is central.
ADELE LOGAN ALEXANDERThere is always more to tell.
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