"This lively and remarkably generous book holds nothing back. We see the houses the author lived in. We feel her frustrations. We know which of her newborns came feet first. Her stories are fully present not just because she is a gifted writer, but because she is also a remarkable historian who doesn't make a fuss about the fact that an almost century-long collection of diaries, letters, snapshots, family histories, personal essays and interviews lies beneath her seemingly seamless recollections. Hats off to I, Claudia!" - Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, author, Well-behaved Women Seldom Make History "'If you don't write it down, it didn't happen, ' Claudia has often told the Exponent II community. With admirable honesty and keen self-reflection, this triumphant memoir expounds on her life as an intelligent, talented woman driven to find her own place in patriarchal religious and secular worlds. With poignant storytelling, she details the specific rewards and challenges of doing so while being married to a man who held positions of power in both realms.

" - Lori LeVar Pierce, President, Exponent II "The title evokes the role of a rare witness who sees, knows, and lives history more than most of its participants. I, Claudia reveals the inner workings of a woman who fully inhabited yet transcended her own times-by birthing herself, then mothering, Mormon women's studies, and mentoring hundreds of women who were trying to do the same in a field that wasn't yet formed. Her story is our herstory." - Maxine Hanks, editor, Women and Authority: Re-emerging Mormon Feminism.