Facts Quote by Zoe Saldana

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

Women have their uses for historians.

— Ronald Syme

I really want to help write women back into history.

— Anita Sarkeesian

But there were women in the world, and from them each of our heroes had taken to himself a wife. The good ladies were…

— Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

We tend to kind of write women out of history.

— Florence Pugh

“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

It is partly the absence of recorded history which sends women now to the lives of women past for the detailed documentation of their…

— Dale Spender

The notion of women being written out of history is as old as the Bible, but it always seems more galling when it is…

— Emily Thornberry

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

— Tamlyn Tomita

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 had seen other women embark on spiritual journeys only to become frightened and turn back. Become frightened of what, I needed to ask.…

— Christina Crawford

Despite the modern dogma to the effect that women were a subject sex until the nineteenth century 'emancipated' them from history, women in history…

— Mary Ritter Beard