History Quote by Toba Beta

“What if, for once in history, a woman's story could be untethered from what we need it to be in order to feel better…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

“History is simply the stories we inherit.”

— Leslie Forbes

“What I've learned writing these stories is that history only looks heavy and solid. In fact, it won't ever stay still.”

— Emily Geminder

“If we had the power to rewrite our histories, what stories would we tell?”

— Karpov Kinrade

“...not stories, but histories. For this too I learned, that a storyteller's tale may end, but history goes on always.”

— Jacqueline Carey

“And I thought:History is like a horror story.”

— Roberto Bolaño

“If the words, But you’re a woman. Let me take point, were ever spoken, that person was history.”

— Laken Cane

“She was one of those shallow people who rewrote their own history and believed in the absolute truth of their own version.”

— Santa Montefiore

“History is fiction.”

— Jennifer Donnelly

“her power of telling stories and of making everything she talked about seem like a story, whether it was one or not.”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“History was a bitch sometimes. You couldn’t change where you were from. But still, you didn’t have to stay there. You didn’t have to…

— Kami Garcia

“We cannot help but be interested in the stories of people that history pushes aside so thoughtlessly.”

— Min Jin Lee