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Writing is a way to reclaim one's history.
To write is to resist the erasure of history.
The personal is historical, and the historical is personal.
We must understand our history through literature.
The sociological imagination enables its possessor to understand the larger historical scene in terms of its meaning for the inner life and the external career of a variety of individuals.
The very shaping of history now outpaces the ability of men to orient themselves in accordance with cherished values. And which values? Even when they do not panic, men often sense that older ways of feeling and thinking have collapsed and that newer beginnings are ambiguous to the point of moral stasis.
The individual's biography is shaped by the historical and social context in which it is embedded.
The very shaping of history now outpaces the ability of men to orient themselves in accordance with cherished values. And which values? Even when they do not panic, men often sense that older ways of feeling and thinking have collapsed and that newer beginnings are ambiguous to the point of moral stasis.
Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.
The sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society.
The fact is that women have more power and influence in America today than at any other time in our history.
