Our state is fortunate to have countless examples of…

Like their personal lives, women's history is fragmented, interrupted; a shadow history of human beings whose existence has been shaped by the efforts and…

— Elizabeth Janeway

When I started giving talks about women's history, one of the things that bothered me was the tendency to say, 'Well, everybody was totally…

— Gail Collins

During Women's History Month, we celebrate milestones in gender equality, and we uplift the stories of women who have impacted our world with their…

— Ralph Northam

British women's history was never confined to the British mainland; and contesting the narrative around enfranchisement shows us that rights were not bestowed by…

— Ash Sarkar

“Because I write women’s history I rarely have the luxury of a full and fair biography to study. Until about 1960 there were very…

— Philippa Gregory

I'm slightly obsessed with women's history, so I'd love to talk to Emily Dickinson or Louisa May Alcott.

— Sandi Toksvig

History is no longer just a chronicle of kings and statesmen, of people who wielded power, but of ordinary women and men engaged in…

— Toshiko Kishida

In 1975, which was the height of the women's movement, I thought I'd write a book on women's history. But in searching for a…

— Stephanie Coontz

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

— Antonia Fraser

“Yet some would say, why women's history at all? Surely men and women have always shared a world, and suffered together all its rights…

— Rosalind Miles

The effect on men has been very bad, too, of the omission of women's history, because men have been given the impression that they're…

— Gerda Lerner

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…

— Gerda Lerner

It's a shame for women's history to be all about men--first boys, then other boys, then men men men. It reminds me of the…

— Elizabeth Kostova

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

The most common characteristic of women's history is to be lost and discovered, lost again and rediscovered, lost once more and re-rediscovered - a…

— Gloria Steinem