You Are A Total Stranger

I Wasn't Brought Up To Be Dazzled By Money Or Fame.

It's A Shame For Women's History To Be All About Men--first Boys, Then Other Boys, Then Men Men Men. It Reminds Me Of The Way Our School History Textbooks Were All About Wars And Elections, One War After Another, With The Dull Periods Of Peace Skimmed Over Whenever They Occurred. (our Teachers Deplored This And Added Extra Units About Social History And Protest Movements, But That Was Still The Message Of The Books.)

And How Could Anyone Consent To Give Up The Smell Of Open Books, Old Or New?

We Gypsies Know That Where Jews Are Killed, Gypsies Are Always Murthered Too. And Then A Lot Of Other People, Usually.

I Wondered Why She Craved This Knowledge And Found Myself Remembering That She Was, After All, An Anthropologist.