Women S History Quotes
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Women S History Quotes & Sayings
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Some women's faces are, in their brightness, a prophecy; and some, in their sadness, a history.
— Charles Dickens
When I started working on women's history about thirty years ago, the field did not exist. People didn't think that women had a history worth knowing.
— Gerda Lerner
The pa system has broken down. Society has broken down.
— Theresa Sjoquist
The feminist revolution had to be fought because women quite simply were stopped at a state of evolution far short of their human capacity.
— Betty Friedan
Until quite recently women's histories were largely overlooked but in the wake of feminism there has been increasing interest in retrieving them.
— Alison Weir
Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.
— C.S. Lewis
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
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
She who leads with her heart is never forgotten.
— Turcois Ominek
War is not women's history.
— Virginia Woolf
In the old times, women did not get their lives written, though I don't doubt many of them were much better worth writing than the men's.
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
In the history of women's tennis the great players have come back from long absences with no problems.
— Lindsay Davenport
The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
— Virginia Woolf
Misogyny was born of fear of women.
— Sarah B. Pomeroy
The cool thing about the Internet is that it's allowing women more access to their own history.
— Kathleen Hanna
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
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
Had a wife and couldn't keep her.
Of course you cannot keep a wife-
Everyone's got to live their life! — Kristen McKee
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
I decided I had to find out if it was my scene or not. So I stepped in at the deep end. It leads you to survive or drown. Very often you survive.
— Theresa Sjoquist
Marriage cannot be a job as it has become.
— Germaine Greer
The less that women are visible as a research subject, the less we are likely to learn about lesbians.
— Bonnie J. Morris
They inhabited a lost world of splendour and brutality, a world dominated by religious change, in which there were few saints.
— Alison Weir
Hidden from History: 300 Years of Women's Oppression and the Fight Against It, London: Pluto Press, 1973.
— Philippa Gregory
Never underestimate the power of a pity fuck, which makes for about ninety percent of women's collective dating history.
— Alice Walsh
Women's stories have been neglected for so long - unless they were queens. Exploring the history of women is a way of redressing that imbalance.
— Kate Williams
When women's true history shall have been written, her part in the upbuilding of this nation will astound the world.
— Abigail Scott Duniway
Bah! Suffragettes. I've no time for suffragettes. They made the biggest mistake in history. They went for equality. They should have gone for power!
— Jennifer Worth
I don't have much history - I've got Rosie Perez, Jennifer Lopez, Rita Moreno. That's it. That's the history of Latin women in Hollywood, really.
— Michelle Rodriguez
The history of the women's movement in America follows a consciousness-amnesia cycle.
— Carol Tavris
Psychologists cannot fix the world so they fix women.
— Germaine Greer
I guess I've played a lot of victims, but that's what a lot of the history of women is about.
— Jodie Foster
Liberty is terrifying but it is also exhilarating.
— Germaine Greer
If you think there's a thing - anything - women didn't do in the past, you're wrong.
— Kameron Hurley