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"Women's Studies is a new field of inquiry, beginning only in the late 1960s, but since that time the literature on women and gender-related topics has burgeoned and multiplied....Part of the reason for this is the interdisciplinary nature of women's studies. Women's studies research and writing has taken place in virtually every field of academic endeavor, including each branch of the humanities, the sciences, the social sciences, and the fine arts."

- from the Editor's Note:
Reader's Guide to Women's Studies
Location: JPL Reference Stacks HQ1180 .R43 1998

For a complete list of resources, please check the library's subject guide on Women's Studies.

Maya Angelou

There is a kind of strength that is almost frightening in black women. It's as if a steel rod runs right through the head down to the feet.

Harriett Tubman

I looked at my hands, to see if I was de same person now I was free. Dere was such a glory ober eberything, de sun came like gold trou de trees, and ober de fields, and I felt like I was in heaven.

Mother Teresa

Sweetest Lord, make me appreciative of the dignity of my high vocation, and its many responsibilities. Never permit me to disgrace it by giving way to coldness, unkindness, or impatience.

Susan B Anthony

Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.

Joan of Arc

You say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me ill, because you would put yourself in great peril.

Sandra Day O'Connor

My hope is that 10 years from now, after I've been across the street at work for a while, they'll all be glad they gave me that wonderful vote.

Rosa Parks

All I was doing was trying to get home from work.

Wangari Maathai

African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are -- to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.

Mary Wollstonecraft

I do not wish [women] to have power over men, but over themselves.

Amelia Earhart

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

Eleanor Roosevelt

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Jane Addams

I do not believe that women are better than men. We have not wrecked railroads, nor corrupted legislature, nor done many unholy things that men have done; but then we must remember that we have not had the chance.

Marie Curie

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

Coretta Scott King

Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.

Anne Frank

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Jane Austen

If there is anything disagreeable going on men are always sure to get out of it.