Access Quote by Frederick Lenz

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

Women systematically underestimate their own abilities.

— Sheryl Sandberg

In the past, there was active discrimination against women in science. That has now gone, and although there are residual effects, these are not…

— Stephen Hawking

For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences.

— Sally Ride

The societies to which I have been exposed seemed to me largely machines for the suppression of women.

— Cormac McCarthy

I am very interested in the enlightenment of women. Very few teachers of advanced self discovery work with women, and if they do it's…

— Frederick Lenz

.Women's Studies can amount simply to compensatory history; too often they fail to challenge the intellectual and political structures that must be challenged if…

— Adrienne Rich

Women are like the arts, forced unto none, Open to all searchers, unprized, if unknown.

— John Donne

When I was growing up, no one ever said to me, "You cannot do math because you're a girl." But, there was an understanding…

— Taraji P. Henson

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

— Tamlyn Tomita

There are still vestiges of societal limitations on women. I tend to think that has to do with opportunities that are available - it…

— Natalie Portman

“Despite being high achievers, even experts in their fields, women can't seem to shake the sense that it is only a matter of time…

— Sheryl Sandberg