Books Quote by Mary Beard

Obviously, everything has always been defined by the dominant ideology. But the dominant ideology has been able to accept women's literature as well as…

— Simone de Beauvoir

For a few thousand years, women had no history. Marriage was our calling, and meekness our virtue. Over the last century, in stuttering succession,…

— Stacy Schiff

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

— Tamlyn Tomita

If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women. The world perhaps would laugh at me, and accuse me…

— Abigail Adams

After my first book, many of my readers came back to tell me that the female characters I had created were not strong enough.…

— Ravi Subramanian

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

Lately, I have been surrounded by many different women of all ages and walks of life. It amazes me to watch and observe how…

— Nicole Richie

One of the downsides of working in antiquity is that you don't have many female voices, but you certainly have a lot of male…

— Mary Beard

Women have always been an equal part of the past. We just havent been a part of history.

— Gloria Steinem

“The point of my books is to give voice to otherwise voiceless females from history and myth, to unlock what has been secreted away…

— Karen Essex

... 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

I find women as writers and as characters are operating within narrow confines. They inherit a kind of ghetto of the soul. I'm trying…

— Kate Braverman