Behinds Quote by Alan Bennett

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

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

— Oscar Wilde

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends.…

— Karl Marx

History does nothing, possesses no enormous wealth, fights no battles. It is rather man, the real, living man, who does everything, possesses, fights. It…

— Karl Marx

When I started researching history in the 1960s, a lot of women about whom I've subsequently written were actually footnotes to history. There was…

— Alison Weir

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

“History may well be a series of stories we tell about the past, but the stories are not just any stories. They're not chosen…

— Thomas King

Men are not the causers of history. History itself, by a pressure of events, causes men to resort to particular actions.

— Tanith Lee

“The man makes History, the woman is History.”

— Oswald Spengler

The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

There's no such thing as history, only historians. That's how we know about the past.

— Peter Greenaway