The frontier will nevertheless survive in the attitudes a f… - Shirley Abbott

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The frontier will nevertheless survive in the attitudes a few of us inherited from it. One of those attitudes—to me a beatitude—is the conviction that the past matters, that history weighs on us and refuses to be forgotten by us, and that the worst poverty women—or men—can suffer is to be bereft of their past.

Shirley Abbott

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Shirley Jean Abbott Tomkievicz (November 16, 1934 - April 8, 2019) was a magazine editor, writer, journalist, and historian, most noted for her three volumes of memoirs.

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