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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

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

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

Any woman who dares to make her own destiny will always put herself in danger. — Philippa Gregory

Women with pasts interest men because they hope history will repeat itself. — Mae West

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

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

Women are also property in our bible; adultery is a property crime in the Old Testament, not a sex crime. — Bill Maher

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

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

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

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

Look at history; all the interesting women were deeply flawed. — Linda Gray

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

In our cultural history, all emotions have been more culturally acceptable to women. — Ariel Gore

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

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

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

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

I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history. — Antonia Fraser

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. T
oo much time for discussion - discord. — Theresa Sjoquist

Women ignore history. Always think it will be different for them. — Eric Jerome Dickey

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

I think that a lot of women that know they're going to be part of history somehow decide to have a character to be remembered by. — Salma Hayek

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

I've been working on the lost history of technical women. — Megan Smith

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

The National Federation of Republican Women has a long history of helping bring women into the political process while promoting the Republican cause. — Laura Bush

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

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 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

It is partly the absence of recorded history which sends women now to the lives of women past for the detailed documentation of their daily lives. — Dale Spender

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

Women's history is the
primary tool for women's emancipation. — Gerda Lerner

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

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

Our history suggests that women will continue to show the world how to be friends. — Marilyn Yalom

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

Throughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything. — Margaret Mead

The happiest countries, like the happiest women, have no history. — L.M. Montgomery