by Marie "Micki" Leaner (1999) — We were just determined that we wanted to go to China, just because it was there and because we'd heard about women holding up half the sky, and they certainly didn't here in our country.

(2005) by Naomi Weisstein — The first rule of a hospital is: don’t believe the patient, even if she’s shouting with pain. She may just be kidding.

by Ellen DuBois (1998) — In 1969, the year I selected my dissertation topic, women's history was only an aspiration. Feminism was still a word with which even those of us who would go on to revive it were uncomfortable using. In graduate history programs all over the country, young women like myself were realizing that the history of women in the U.S. was an enormous, unexplored territory, rich with compelling analytical questions.

by Vivian Rothstein (1998) — There are some things you should never do when your marriage is on the rocks. One of them is join a commune.

by Mary Ann Gilpatrick (2004) —  A while back, the Unitarian Church I have gotten involved with went through the process of becoming a Welcoming Congregation. This involves learning to be not just tolerant of alternate sexualities, but to actively listen and understand the issues of gay members (such as demeaning language and other thoughtless exclusions).

by Sarah Bornstein (2002) — Why should anyone care about the Chicago Women’s Liberation Union? The organization ceased to operate nearly twenty-five years ago, and was only in existence for eight years. True, during that time, its rolling membership included several thousand and the work it did touched the lives of thousands more.

by Chris Riddiough (1999) — What I know about gender and politics I learned not from my academic career, but rather from my activism. I became involved in politics, like many of my generation, during the anti-Vietnam war movement. Some of the most important lessons I learned were from my experience in the Chicago Women’s Liberation Union (CWLU).