Fields Quote by Gerda Lerner

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

— Tamlyn Tomita

History is no longer just a chronicle of kings and statesmen, of people who wielded power, but of ordinary women and men engaged in…

— Toshiko Kishida

Women have their uses for historians.

— Ronald Syme

It is partly the absence of recorded history which sends women now to the lives of women past for the detailed documentation of their…

— Dale Spender

We tend to kind of write women out of history.

— Florence Pugh

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

“History may well be a series of stories we tell about the past, but the stories are not just any stories. They're not chosen…

— Thomas King

The truth has never been told about women in history: that everywhere man has gone woman has gone too, and what he has done…

— Pearl S. Buck

When I learnt, however, that in 1911 there had been twenty-one regular feminist periodicals in Britain, that there was a feminist book shop, a…

— Dale Spender

Like their personal lives, women's history is fragmented, interrupted; a shadow history of human beings whose existence has been shaped by the efforts and…

— Elizabeth Janeway

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