Comfort Quote by Gerda Lerner

Through the years, Madam Walker has certainly become a staple of anything that has to do with black history, women's history and entrepreneurship.

— A'Lelia Bundles

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

— Gerda Lerner

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

The effect on men has been very bad, too, of the omission of women's history, because men have been given the impression that they're…

— Gerda Lerner

The history of women is the history of the worst form of tyranny the world has ever known. The tyranny of the weak over…

— Oscar Wilde

Despite the modern dogma to the effect that women were a subject sex until the nineteenth century 'emancipated' them from history, women in history…

— Mary Ritter Beard

British women's history was never confined to the British mainland; and contesting the narrative around enfranchisement shows us that rights were not bestowed by…

— Ash Sarkar

“Because I write women’s history I rarely have the luxury of a full and fair biography to study. Until about 1960 there were very…

— Philippa Gregory

I'm slightly obsessed with women's history, so I'd love to talk to Emily Dickinson or Louisa May Alcott.

— Sandi Toksvig

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

In 1975, which was the height of the women's movement, I thought I'd write a book on women's history. But in searching for a…

— Stephanie Coontz

I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history.

— Antonia Fraser