I wondered why she craved this knowledge and found myself remembering that she was, after all, an anthropologist.

I wasn't brought up to be dazzled by money or fame.

My guess is that he remembers some of me, some of us together, and the rest rolled off him like topsoil in a flash flood.

For me, Dracula has always been associated with travel and beautiful historical places.

Recently abandoned women can be complicated.

These atheist cultures were certainly diligent in preserving the relics of their saints.

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.)