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Thus the regime has deprived Iranian women not just of their present rights, but also of their history and their past. — Azar Nafisi

We live in an era of globalization and the era of the woman. Never in the history of the world have women been more in control of their destiny. — Oscar De La Renta

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments. — George Washington

History is made by men and women of vision and courage. Tonight freedom is on the march. — Ronald Reagan

Some women's faces are, in their brightness, a prophecy; and some, in their sadness, a history. — Charles Dickens

How can we trust a religion that has advocated slavery and the subjugation of women throughout history? — Perry Marshall

Good women are no fun ... The only good woman I can recall in history was Betsy Ross. And all she ever made was a flag. — Mae West

Women have no existence except in love; the history of their life begins and ends with love! — Madame De Stael

Only in a secular history where men and women are freed for unexpected true humanity can God reveal his own being. — Edward Schillebeeckx

Love which is only an episode in the life of men, is the entire history of the life of women. — Madame De Stael

There was virtually no aspect of twentieth-century defense technology that had not been touched by the hands and minds of female mathematicians. — Margot Lee Shetterly

My biggest influences are strong, creative women that chart their own path, lead their own lives and drive the course of history. — Rachel Roy

The history of all times, and of today especially, teaches that ... women will be forgotten if they forget to think about themselves. — Louise Otto-Peters

The Shriver Report presents an accurate and detailed portrait of American women and families at this transformational moment in our history. — Maria Shriver

At no moment in history has a bright young girl with plenty of food and a good constitution perished from too much learning. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time. — C.S. Lewis

It Begins with skepticism. The history of human folly, and our own susceptibility to illusions and fallacies, tell us that men and women are fallible. — Steven Pinker

this book, giving voice to what is so basic among men and women throughout history, I have translated it "the Quester."] — Eugene H. Peterson

I notice perfume smells on his shirts and even later hours. I suspect he's having an affair but really don't care. — Martha Lemasters

The tide of history is turning women from beasts of burden and sexual playthings into full-fledged human beings. — Nicholas D. Kristof

Women often get dropped from memory, and then history. — Doris Lessing

An indigenous feminism has been present in every culture in the world and in every period of history since the suppression of women began. — Robin Morgan

Elizabeth Cady read the nation's great Declaration, and it bothered her. All men are created equal, it said. But what about women? — Joy Hakim

Women's history is women's right-an essential, indispensable heritage from which we can draw pride, comfort, courage, and long range vision. — Gerda Lerner

For the next ten years, until 1251, she and a small group of other women controlled the largest empire in world history. — Jack Weatherford

When a great man stands on a land for a moment, the land becomes not just a great land for a moment, but a great landmark! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Black women all over the world should re-unite and re-examine the way history has portrayed us. — Buchi Emecheta

My mother? My own mother told my lady governess that if the baby and I were in danger then they should save the baby. — Philippa Gregory

Of how many women might the history be comprised in those few words - 'she lived, suffered, and was buried'! — Anna Brownell Jameson

I defend the authority of women and explore its meaning for them rather than assume they need to be more accommodating or sensitive. — David Bedrick

Hidden from History: 300 Years of Women's Oppression and the Fight Against It, London: Pluto Press, 1973. — Philippa Gregory

Specifically for black women, our images and our bodies in the media and in history have been so hypersexualized. — Tatyana Fazlalizadeh

The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence. — Virginia Woolf

Another husband, another new house, another new country, but I never belong anywhere and I never own anything in my own right. — Philippa Gregory

The great men and women of history were not great because of what they earned and owned, but rather for what they gave their lives to accomplish. — John C. Maxwell

For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries. — Cesare Pavese

History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket. — Alan Bennett

The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women. — Queen Elizabeth II

A woman's got one life: She's got to reach out and grab it with both hands, or it'll pass her by and leave nothing but a smelly old fart in her face. — Robin Schone

They inhabited a lost world of splendour and brutality, a world dominated by religious change, in which there were few saints. — Alison Weir

History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women. — O. Henry

In the history of humanity, women have never been as oppressed as they are right now. Men can make babies with us and then walk away. — Laura Schlessinger

Only a handful of men and women leave an imprint on the conscience of a nation and on the history that they helped shape. — Barack Obama

Peter, Peter Pumpkin Eater,
Had a wife and couldn't keep her.
Of course you cannot keep a wife-
Everyone's got to live their life! — Kristen McKee

If I look at history, it seems that most wars and most cruel things have been done by men and not by women. — Peter Zumthor