Barbara Tuchman Quotes about Age

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Human beings of any age need to approve of themselves; the bad times in history come when they cannot.

Age, Needs, Bad Times

Barbara Wertheim Tuchman (1980). “A Distant Mirror”, Ballantine Books

That conflict between the reach for the divine and the lure of earthly things was to be the central problem of the Middle Ages.

Age, Problem, Conflict

Barbara W. Tuchman (2011). “A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century”, p.6, Random House