Has beens Quote by Ellen Goodman

The women's movement was coming, but I didn't know it in 1956-1957, when I began to write.

— Grace Paley

We tend to kind of write women out of history.

— Florence Pugh

The notion of women being written out of history is as old as the Bible, but it always seems more galling when it is…

— Emily Thornberry

“The most cursory examination of even the most progressive organs of information reveals a curious inability to recognize women as newsmakers, unless they are…

— Germaine Greer

At the moment of their emancipation, women have a need to write their own histories.

— Simone de Beauvoir

In the old times, women did not get their lives written, though I don't doubt many of them were much better worth writing than…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

The dilemma for women - writing after everything else was finished - has prevented women from reaching their literary potential for centuries.

— Joan M. Drury

It is this delightful habit of journalizing which largely contributes to form the easy style of writing for which ladies are so generally celebrated.…

— Jane Austen

There may be fewer women historians writing on traditionally 'male' subjects, but they are outstanding in the field - like Margaret MacMillan.

— Amanda Foreman

What had really caused the women's movement was the additional years of human life. At the turn of the century women's life expectancy was…

— Betty Friedan

The forward march of American literature is usually chronicled by way of its male novelists. There is little sense, in that version of the…

— Michelle Dean

I really want to help write women back into history.

— Anita Sarkeesian