Contemporary Quote by Emily James Smith Putnam

A well-behaved woman seldom makes history

— Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

A lady, that is an enlightened, cultivated, liberal lady - the only kind to be in a time of increasing classlessness - could espouse…

— Virgilia Peterson

... if, as women, we accept a philosophy of history that asserts that women are by definition assimilated into the male universal,that we can…

— Adrienne Rich

A woman who occupies the same realm of thought with man, who can explore with him the depths of science, comprehend the steps of…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

— Tamlyn Tomita

“Her legacy is that of a woman who refused to conform to the misogynistic traditions of her time.”

— Eleanor Herman

The intellectual who wants to do her work properly must today go back to the starting point: the woman whom she knows, and first…

— Jacques Ellul

A women's place in history has never been given the attention that it needs to be given, and that's why we have a lot…

— Dolores Huerta

Women throughout history have had to defy rigid conventions about what is and is not expected of them.

— Margaret MacMillan

History as a discipline can be characterized as having a collective forgetfulness about women

— Clarice Stasz Stoll

Women have their uses for historians.

— Ronald Syme

The history of all times, and of today especially, teaches that...women will be forgotten if they forget to think about themselves.

— Anonymous