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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful,

American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it. – James A. Baldwin

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Young women today often have very little appreciation for the real battles that took place to get women where they are today in this country. I dont know how much history young women today know about those battles. – Sandra Day OConnor

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Historians are gossips who tease the dead. – Voltaire, Scribbling Books

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An account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools. – Ambrose Bierce

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A womans whole life is a history of the affections. – Washington Irving

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