Our sense of worth, of well-being, even our sanity depends upon our remembering. But, alas, our sense of worth, our well-being, our sanity also depend upon our forgetting.

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She is Professor Emerita of History at University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). Joyce Oldham Appleby (born April 9 1929) is an American historian.