The Girl I Left Behind Quotes

“I think the 1960s were really about consciousness, a unique moment when I became we.”
― Judith Nies, The Girl I Left Behind: A Personal History of the 1960s

“this women’s liberation thing is simply an American fad” and would pass.”
― Judith Nies, The Girl I Left Behind: A Personal History of the 1960s

“I explained to her how the international corporations and banks that came to my school refused to interview women for jobs because women, they said, could not be in business. She”
― Judith Nies, The Girl I Left Behind: A Personal History of the 1960s

“When I repeated what I had been told, namely that women couldn’t be successful in business, she was astonished.”
― Judith Nies, The Girl I Left Behind: A Personal History of the 1960s

“Women were supposed to be seen and not heard.”
― Judith Nies, The Girl I Left Behind: A Personal History of the 1960s