Women History Quotes

War is not women's history.

— Virginia Woolf

We tend to kind of write women out of history.

— Florence Pugh

I really want to help write women back into history.

— Anita Sarkeesian

Women throughout history have had to defy rigid conventions about what is and is not expected of them.

— Margaret MacMillan

“With you... I can understand why men have waged wars over women in history.”

— Melissa Petreschock

“The happiest countries, like the happiest women, have no history.”

— L.M. Montgomery

I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history.

— Vivienne Westwood

How few women have any history after the age of thirty!

— Elizabeth Oakes Smith

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

— Antonia Fraser

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

— Sandi Toksvig

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

— Gerda Lerner

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

I, like many of the other women who made history and dared to step up to lead since the 2018 midterms, know…

— Maya Wiley

Our state is fortunate to have countless examples of women's history to celebrate, but the fight for women's rights must continue.

— Ben Ray Lujan

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

— Toshiko Kishida

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

— Cesare Pavese

I didn't see many female politicians on TV. I didn't see women in history textbooks, so I did geography, and art and…

— Emma Watson

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

— Elizabeth Janeway

You know, women have a history of just being - we've been told all our lives not to say - in the…

— Cybill Shepherd

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…

— Stephanie Coontz

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…

— Elizabeth Kostova

For a few thousand years, women had no history. Marriage was our calling, and meekness our virtue. Over the last century, in…

— Stacy Schiff

“Here we are, women who have been the beneficiaries of education, resources, reproductive choices, travel opportunities, the Internet, and a longer life…

— Jean Shinoda Bolen

“The simple and fact is that misogyny is fundamental to the basic writings of Christianity and it is such an intricate part…

— Al Stefanelli

Virginia has no shortage of pioneering women who have made history by overcoming doubt and discrimination, by daring to step into roles…

— Ralph Northam

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

— Gail Collins

Despite the modern dogma to the effect that women were a subject sex until the nineteenth century 'emancipated' them from history, women…

— Mary Ritter Beard

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

— Gerda Lerner

“The role played by women in history is as underwritten in India as anywhere, so it is only right to end with…

— Charles Allen

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

— Rosalind Miles

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

— Philippa Gregory

“I had no idea what to say to this. I had been nurtured in the U.S. school system on a steady diet…

— Kameron Hurley

Do you notice how all the self-sacrificing women in history; Joan of Arc, Mother Theresa, can't think of any others; they all…

— Dr Gregory House

Through the years, Madam Walker has certainly become a staple of anything that has to do with black history, women's history and…

— A'Lelia Bundles

When I started working on women's history about thirty years ago, the field did not exist. People didn't think that women had…

— Gerda Lerner

“The great men and women of history were not great because of what they earned and owned, but rather for what they…

— John C. Maxwell

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

— Ralph Northam

The history of women is the history of the worst form of tyranny the world has ever known. The tyranny of the…

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Ash Sarkar

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

— Anna Brownell Jameson