Comfort Quote by Gerda Lerner

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

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

... if, as women, we accept a philosophy of history that asserts that women are by definition assimilated into the male universal,that we can…

— Adrienne Rich

Women have their uses for historians.

— Ronald Syme

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

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

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

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

The history of woman is the history of the continued and universal oppression of one sex by the other. The emancipation of woman is…

— Tennessee Celeste Claflin

History is full of strong, imposing women. Well, my internet history is anyway.

— Nikhil Saluja

Black women all over the world should re-unite and re-examine the way history has portrayed us.

— Buchi Emecheta