1. This quote has been attributed to me, but I first heard it while organizing in the South in the early 1970s, and was told it had been said by a black woman of the abolitionist and suffragist era to her white Southern sisters. If any reader knows its source, I would love to have it.
2. M. M. Marberry, Vicky: A Biography of Victoria C. Woodhull (New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1967), p. 70.
3. Ibid., p. 83
4. For more by and about Victoria Woodhull, see Madeleine B. Stern, VW Reader (Weston, Mass.: MNS Publishers, 1974); Emanie Sachs, The Terrible Siren: Victoria Woodhull, 1838–1927 (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1928). In her later stage of seeking a rich husband in Europe, Woodhull was the model for Nancy Headway in The Siege of Paris, by Henry James.
5. Susan A. Ostrander, Women of the Upper Class (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1984), p. 151.
6. Robin Morgan, The Demon Lover (New York: W. W. Norton, 1989), p. 159.
7. This is a fifteen-year study that began in 1981. A ten-year report has now been published. Karen D. Arnold, “Academic Achievement—A View from the Top: The Illinois Valedictorian Project,” North Central Regional Educational Library, 1900 Spring Road, Suite 300, Oak Brook, IL 60521. “Higher Education: Colder by Degrees,” Myra and David Sadker, Failing at Fairness (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1994), pp. 161–96.
8. Joan Jacobs Brumberg, Fasting Girls (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1988), pp. 12–13.
9. Linda Tschirhart Sanford and Mary Ellen Donovan, Women and Self-Esteem (New York: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1984), p. 74.
10. Ibid., p. 47.
11. “Relating to Our Family, Money and Communities,” Selected Highlights of the Third Annual Women Managing Wealth Conference, 1990. A program of the Ms. Foundation for Women, 141 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
12. G. William Domhoff, Who Rules America Now? (New York: Simon & Schuster/Touchstone, 1983), p. 42.
13. Aileen S. Kaditor, The Ideas of the Woman Suffrage Movement: 1890–1920 (New York: W. W. Norton, 1981), pp. 153–54, 241.
14. Ibid., p. 153n.
15. Madeleine B. Stern, Queen of Publishers’ Row (New York: Messner, 1965), p. 186.
16. For information about local or national meetings of women managing wealth, contact: Resourceful Women, 3543 18th Street #9, San Francisco, CA 94110, 415-431-5677, fax 415-431-9634.
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