Doe Quote by Cesare Pavese

“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

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

I think that a lot of women that know they're going to be part of history somehow decide to have a character to be…

— Salma Hayek

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

Women have their uses for historians.

— Ronald Syme

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

We tend to kind of write women out of history.

— Florence Pugh

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

No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness. When we allow ourselves to believe we are, we lose touch…

— Adrienne Rich

I absolutely believe the past had its share of warrior women who fought like men. Whether some of these were the actual Amazons from…

— Anne Fortier

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

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

— Tamlyn Tomita