Revelations: Diaries of Women
"To read this book is to experience an excitement, a warm recognitiion,  and a dizzingly expanded sense of possibilities...These are revelations  indeed.  For the first time, consciously and all in one place, editores  Moffat and Painter have assembled evidence of the full human range of  passions, achievements, and insights in women ...a great encouragement  and stimulus to any woman who hopes her own life will be full, deep, and  wide."  --Annie Gottleib, Viva"Two California women took on the formidable task of selecting and  editing (this) compilation, and have produced one of the most exciting  and moving collections of women's writing I have yet read.  Mary Jane  Moffat and Charlotte Painter are both teachers and themselves intelligent  writers, as is evident in their own comments dispersed throughout...and  in Moffat's Foreword and Painter's Afterword. . . The women represented  here explore their feelings honestly, humorously, painfully, wisely."   --Ann Morrissett Davidon, in The Nation