Beard Quote by Lucy Worsley

Yes, it has been harder for women, particularly those over a certain age, to keep going careers in certain areas of the BBC like…

— Angela Rippon

Along with the rest of the establishment, the BBC which, to be fair, can make superb documentaries - seems to have swallowed the distortions…

— Melanie Phillips

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

Women have their uses for historians.

— Ronald Syme

At the BBC we've had plenty of women in good management jobs. It comes and goes but there's been plenty. On air, I think…

— Evan Davis

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

I think that a lot of women that know they're going to be part of history somehow decide to have a character to be…

— Salma Hayek

I am particularly pleased to see that there are so many women working in documentary film.

— Chris Hegedus

Some of the writers I've praised are Sara Paretsky, Val McDermid, Elisabeth George and Minette Walters. Strangely enough, almost all are women.

— Stieg Larsson

There were all us baby boomers who had a grammar school education, started to learn, then went on the pill, the whole thing, and…

— Julie Walters

Documentaries require an enormous amount of grit and empathy - and that is something women are incredibly strong at.

— Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi

It is fascinating to me that when the lists of the great writers are trotted out year after year, you often find lists without…

— Siri Hustvedt