America Quote by Carol Tavris

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

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

In spite of all the cultural restrictions, in spite of marital or political difficulties, a strong woman continues to create and makes the world…

— Barbara Harbach

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

— A'Lelia Bundles

I guess I've played a lot of victims, but that's what a lot of the history of women is about.

— Jodie Foster

The scope of the history of women is so underplayed and not told as often as it should be.

— Tamlyn Tomita

Economically, legally, and politically powerless throughout much of western history, women have been linked to nature and the unknowable through metaphors of the body…

— Whitney Chadwick

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

— Mary Ritter Beard

“To discover the history of women and art is in part to account for the way art history is written. To expose its underlying…

— Norma Broude

Most Americans who made it past the fourth grade have a pretty good idea who Thurgood Marshall, Rosa Parks, and Martin Luther King, Jr.,…

— Louis Menand

We also have to make sure our children know the history of women. Tell them the rotten truth: It wasn't always possible for women…

— Anne Roiphe

I'm exploring the long history of women, first of all, being silenced and, secondly, not being taken seriously in the political and public sphere.…

— Mary Beard

The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence.

— Virginia Woolf

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

Throughout history, women have often been treated as second-class citizens and their voices silenced.

— Abby Johnson