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Linda Gordon

  • Whether histories have a happy ending or not depends on when the chronicler ends the tale.

  • As the feminist saying goes, 'Women deliver.' In other words, when women control resources, the social gain is greater than when men control resources.

    • Linda Gordon,
    • "Translating Our Bodies, Ourselves," in The Nation ()

Linda Gordon, U.S. historian

(1940)