Enlightenment Quote by Frederick Lenz

Men are suppressing woman politically, philosophically, socially, through denying them education, equal rights, equal employment, and just by setting up a description of the…

— Frederick Lenz

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

— Tamlyn Tomita

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

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

— Virginia Woolf

Whatever oppressions man has suffered, they have invariably fallen more heavily on woman. Whatever new liberties advancing civilization has brought to man, ever the…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Women should not be suppressed because they are women, because they have children and because of men. Then I am a feminist. But when…

— Buchi Emecheta

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

The suppression of women's rights began with the suppression of women's rites.

— Merlin Stone

To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Sexism has never rendered women powerless. It has either suppressed their strength or exploited it.

— Bell Hooks

While notable advances in certain parts of the world in woman's rights have occured in the last hundred years, the centuries of conditioning and…

— Frederick Lenz

If you read all your history books, there are no women in them.

— Caitlin Moran