Women's History Quotes
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Women's History Quotes & Sayings
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Afghan women, as a group, I think their suffering has been equaled by very few other groups in recent world history.
— Khaled Hosseini
I am, at this moment, what I have always been to him: an object of beauty. He has never loved me as a woman.
— Philippa Gregory
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
Caesar was a serial seducer of married women.
— Adrian Goldsworthy
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
As history shows, childless women in America eventually provoke hysteria.
— Michelle Goldberg
Historically men have suppressed women quite effectively. They have suppressed women since the beginning of our history.
— Frederick Lenz
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
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
— Erica Jong
Women are also property in our bible; adultery is a property crime in the Old Testament, not a sex crime.
— Bill Maher
Christianity has done more to elevate the status of women than any other movement in history.
— Stasi Eldredge
The pa system has broken down. Society has broken down.
— Theresa Sjoquist
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
Women have always been an equal part of the past. We just havent been a part of history.
— Gloria Steinem
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
Women who behave rarely make history.
— Sunny Weber
The Shriver Report presents an accurate and detailed portrait of American women and families at this transformational moment in our history.
— Maria Shriver
Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.
— C.S. Lewis
Great men have always preferred women of the prostitute type.
— Otto Weininger
this book, giving voice to what is so basic among men and women throughout history, I have translated it "the Quester."]
— Eugene H. Peterson
Liberty is terrifying but it is also exhilarating.
— Germaine Greer
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
It appears to me that our sex is only discussed publicly in a derogatory manner. The respectable woman is doomed to anonymity.
— Karen Essex
She who leads with her heart is never forgotten.
— Turcois Ominek
In the history of women's tennis the great players have come back from long absences with no problems.
— Lindsay Davenport
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
Psychologists cannot fix the world so they fix women.
— Germaine Greer
Hidden from History: 300 Years of Women's Oppression and the Fight Against It, London: Pluto Press, 1973.
— Philippa Gregory
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
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
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
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
Without women, humanity will be history.
— Debasish Mridha
War is not women's history.
— Virginia Woolf
Never underestimate the power of a pity fuck, which makes for about ninety percent of women's collective dating history.
— Alice Walsh
Specifically for black women, our images and our bodies in the media and in history have been so hypersexualized.
— Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!
— Susan B. Anthony
The facts of religion were convincing only to those who were already convinced.
— Simone De Beauvoir
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
Doing brings happiness. Too much time for discussion - discord. — Theresa Sjoquist
Women ignore history. Always think it will be different for them.
— Eric Jerome Dickey
Knights do protect ladies, but only to keep them from being abducted by other knights.
— Steven Pinker
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
The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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
Blatant, intentional discrimination against women is far from being something merely to be read about in history books.
— Cordelia Fine
With you ... I can understand why men have waged wars over women in history.
— Melissa Petreschock
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
Well-behaved women seldom make history.
— Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
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
When ready to settle down: women are more interested in where the man is going; men are more interested in where the woman has been.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history.
— Vivienne Westwood
The cool thing about the Internet is that it's allowing women more access to their own history.
— Kathleen Hanna
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
The history of civilization could actually be written in terms of the level of its women.
— Fulton J. Sheen
The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence.
— Virginia Woolf
The tide of history is turning women from beasts of burden and sexual playthings into full-fledged human beings.
— Nicholas D. Kristof
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
If you think there's a thing - anything - women didn't do in the past, you're wrong.
— Kameron Hurley
For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
— Cesare Pavese
Every woman is a mad ugly bad old witch somewhere in her heart.
— Philippa Gregory
The real mistake of women was to let the memoir, the collective, the history, space of producing history - to let it in the hands of men.
— Fatema Mernissi
If you read all your history books, there are no women in them.
— Caitlin Moran
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
Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk.
— Dolores Huerta
They inhabited a lost world of splendour and brutality, a world dominated by religious change, in which there were few saints.
— Alison Weir
I guess I've played a lot of victims, but that's what a lot of the history of women is about.
— Jodie Foster
The happiest countries, like the happiest women, have no history.
— L.M. Montgomery