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 Copy Share Image
“All this mundane: merely the ordinary experience of my whiplash generation. Caught between our mothers (who stayed home) and the next generation… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
As we move beyond Women's History Month, I am committed to advancing legislation to raise the minimum wage and ensure women are… — Colleen Hanabusa Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history. — Antonia Fraser Copy Share Image
“Let us by all means teach black history, African history, women's history, Hispanic history, Asian history. But let us teach them as… — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr Copy Share Image
“Their story, as the Delany sisters like to say, is not meant as "black" or "women's" history, but American history. It belongs… — Amy Hill Hearth Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“The consensus in Holocaust and genocide studies is that the systems that make mass murder possible would not function without the broad… — Wendy Lower Copy Share Image
History is no longer just a chronicle of kings and statesmen, of people who wielded power, but of ordinary women and men… — Toshiko Kishida Copy Share Image
I'm slightly obsessed with women's history, so I'd love to talk to Emily Dickinson or Louisa May Alcott. — Sandi Toksvig Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
March is Cerebral Palsy Awareness Month. Don't feel bad if you did not know that. I didn't, either, until someone recently slapped… — Maysoon Zayid Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In fact, when I began selling 'Phenomenal Woman' T-shirts on International Women's Day last year, the campaign was supposed to run just… — Meena Harris Copy Share Image
You Can't Kill the Spirit resonates with the voices and power of women around the globe who have refused to be either… — Charlotte Bunch Copy Share Image
“Silence is what allows people to suffer without recourse, what allows hypocrisies and lies to grow and flourish, crimes to go unpunished.… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The most common characteristic of women's history is to be lost and discovered, lost again and rediscovered, lost once more and re-rediscovered… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
