Access Quote by George Steiner

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

— Simone de Beauvoir

Women are interested in relationships and how other societies manage those relationships. They may have been constrained in what roles were open to them,…

— Margaret MacMillan

The liberation of women from exclusive domesticity did not originate in feminist books, or a war, or a big inflation, although they contributed to…

— Barbara Bergmann

Obviously, everything has always been defined by the dominant ideology. But the dominant ideology has been able to accept women's literature as well as…

— Simone de Beauvoir

The social repression and ideological repression of women began with depriving them of education, political decisiveness, mobility and essentially creating sexual slavery.

— Frederick Lenz

The literature of women's lives is a tradition of escapees, women who have lived to tell the tale.

— Phyllis Rose

Women's history is the primary tool for women's emancipation.

— Gerda Lerner

As women began to challenge their own internalized views of a woman's proper place, their desire and demand for equal status and free choice…

— Susan Faludi

Women, who are a majority of the peoples of the earth, are indispensable to the accumulation of the kind of social capital that is…

— Mahnaz Afkhami

“But the period I studied -- the rollicking eighteenth century engraved by Hogarth -- was the one that saw the birth of America, of…

— Erica Jong

The complete emancipation of women from the ties which held them back in the past, during the ages of despotism and ignorance, is a…

— Saddam Hussein

women's entry into the public sphere can be seen not merely as the result of contemporary economic pressures, the high rate of divorce, or…

— Sally Helgesen