Country Quote by Howard Zinn

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 history of civilization could actually be written in terms of the level of its women.

— Fulton J. Sheen

“Years later, another member [of the Royal Geographical Society] conceded, "Explorers are not, perhaps, the most promising people with whom to build a society.…

— David Grann

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

If you read all your history books, there are no women in them.

— Caitlin Moran

Men should be explorers no matter how old they are.

— Don Ameche

We tend to kind of write women out of history.

— Florence Pugh

Men and women -- even man and wife are foreigners. Each has reserves that the other cannot enter into, nor understand. These have the…

— Mark Twain

Do you really believe ... that everything historians tell us about men – or about women – is actually true? You ought to consider…

— Moderata Fonte

Generally speaking, men are held in great esteem in all parts of the world, so why shouldn't women have their share? Soldiers and war…

— Anne Frank

To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Women were like rivers, their banks were unreachable, the night often rang with the cries of the drowned.

— Thomas Bernhard