"This book is a gift from a great historian to all those who seek a life of learning, teaching, and making change.  Here we get an inside view of how a generation of women scholars transformed a profession and how one of that generation's preeminent leaders has taught later generations to think and write.  Perhaps most important, we learn by example how a lifetime of courage and reflection can enable one to meet old age with courage and grace."--
J. Hall, Univ. Of North Carolina at Chapel Hill