About Quote by Tansy Rayner Roberts

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

A women's place in history has never been given the attention that it needs to be given, and that's why we have a lot…

— Dolores Huerta

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

.Women's Studies can amount simply to compensatory history; too often they fail to challenge the intellectual and political structures that must be challenged if…

— Adrienne Rich

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

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

— Elizabeth Kostova

It is more difficult to research women's lives than it is men's. There has always been a tendency - race notwithstanding - to believe…

— Adele Logan Alexander

Long historical books get written by women, but not contemporary experiments, which still seems to be a very male-dominated field.

— Eleanor Catton

Great women scholars like Jane Harrison and Gisela Richter were produced by the intellectual discipline of the masculine classical tradition, not the wishy-washy sentimentalism…

— Camille Paglia

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

— Tamlyn Tomita

I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history.

— Vivienne Westwood

Women have their uses for historians.

— Ronald Syme