As free as you allow others to be, such freedom you create for yourself.
In antihistory, time is an illusion.
When carrying a concealed weapon for self-defense is understood NOT as a failure of civil society, to be mourned, but as an act of citizenship, to be vaunted, there is little civilian life left.
History is the art of making an argument about the past by telling a story accountable to evidence. In the writing of history, a story without an argument fades into antiquarianism; an argument without a story risks pedantry. Writing history requires empathy, inquiry, and debate. It requires forswearing condescension, cant, and nostalgia. The past isn’t quaint. Much of it, in fact, is bleak.
The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesnt enter into it.
History is a long and endlessly interesting argument, where evidence is everything and storytelling is everything else.
Mainly, the more faddish and newer stages of life are really just marketing schemes. Tweenhood. The young old. The quarter-life crisis.
I think all women in all industries have more obstacles than men.
Go forward, knowing that you are greater than the challenges of your time.
Poverty is the greatest violence.
I don't get surprised very often to be honest. I'm the kind of person who you couldn't throw a surprise party for because I'd figure it out.