Canadian history Quote by Merna Forster

Women have their uses for historians.

— Ronald Syme

“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

We tend to kind of write women out of history.

— Florence Pugh

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

“It's a shame for a woman's history to be all about men-first boys, then other boys, then men, men, men. It reminds me of…

— Elizabeth Kostova

“You must go around the states lecturing to women. And the inoffensive writers who've never dared lecture anyone, let alone women-they are frightened of…

— Dylan Thomas

“Each time a girl opens a book and finds a womanless history, she learns she is worth less.”

— Myra Pollack Sadker

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

— Tamlyn Tomita

“Every scholarly history that was written before 1920 was written by a man who had been taught by a man, whose thesis would be…

— Philippa Gregory

“Women hold the pen to history's and herstory's narrative. Let's rewrite it with courage and conviction.”

— Dr. Tracey Bond

“He says unloved women have no biographies—they have histories.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“The book presents a broad world of women coming from all eras, countries, backgrounds, races, and ethnicities. They’re rabble-rousers from all sorts of disciplines:…

— Ann Shen