History Quote by Thomas King

History is no longer just a chronicle of kings and statesmen, of people who wielded power, but of ordinary women and men engaged in…

— Toshiko Kishida

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

“Every woman should have a daughter to tell her stories to. Otherwise, the lessons learned are as useless as spare buttons from a discarded…

— Karen White

A woman's biography - with about eight famous historical exceptions - so often turns out to be the story of a man and the…

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

... 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 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've been writing American history for a long time, and I've had a hard time finding strong, interesting female characters. There are women, of…

— H. W. Brands

Women have their uses for historians.

— Ronald Syme

For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.

— Cesare Pavese

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

— Tamlyn Tomita

Women need to tell their stories from their experiences, and that may not mean that it would be all stories with women as protagonists.

— Parvathy