"My male colleagues sometimes wonder if I understand as much about defense as I ought to. Of course if I agree with them, they think that I do."

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When you are an historian, there's probably nothing that matters more than to be recognized by your colleagues in your own profession. I was lucky enough to win the Pulitzer Prize for History. I had to give a talk right after that to some young people. The most important thing to tell them, I think, is that you can't ever know that it's going to turn out that way.

— Doris Kearns Goodwin