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Description
National Book Award finalist Kate Walbert's A Short History of Women is a profoundly moving portrayal of the complicated legacies of mothers and daughters, chronicling five generations of women from the close of the nineteenth century through the early years of the twenty-first. The novel... read more
Memorable Quotes
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“Courage in women is often mistaken for insanity”
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“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage”
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“My great-great-grandmother starved herself for suffrage”
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“I'm just trying to be real when everything is an approximation.”
Dorothy Townsend Barrett
First Sentence
Mum starved herself for suffrage, Grandmother claiming it was just like Mum to take a cause too far.
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Authors & Contributors
- Kate Walbert (Author)
Awards
- Amazon.com's Best Books (November 2009: Editors' Picks, #45)
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