Characteristics Quote by Gloria Steinem

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

“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

... 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

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

Women often get dropped from memory, and then history

— Doris Lessing

“Once women have lost her and then found her again, they will contend to keep her for good. Once they have regained her, they…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés

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

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

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

— Tamlyn Tomita

The history of all times, and of today especially, teaches that...women will be forgotten if they forget to think about themselves.

— Anonymous

The real mistake of women was to let the memoir, the collective, the history, space of producing history - to let it in the…

— Fatema Mernissi

“When the memory of one's predecessors is buried, the assumption persists that there were none and each generation of women believes itself to be…

— Joanna Russ