Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey Quotes

“One must suspect, finally, that many women judged the heroic adventure of their men as some kind of outrageous folly thrust upon them by obedience to patriarchal ritual.”
― Lillian Schlissel, Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey

“The women, in the naturalness of their telling, offer a new perception of the relationship between the emigrants and the Indians [Native Americans].”
― Lillian Schlissel, Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey