Quotes About History

That problem has been going on since men and women and their children moved from the plains and into caves. How many times have you heard Howard Cunningham talking to Marian about shopping? Too many.

I believe that history is not made by cynics. It is made by realists who are not afraid to dream. Let us be these people.

What is Africa to me: Copper sun or scarlet sea, Jungle star or jungle track, Strong bronzed men, or regal black Women from whose loins I sprang When the birds of Eden sang?

Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.

I asked [my father] what there was to make doctoring more disgusting than nursing, which women were always doing, and which ladies had done publicly in the Crimea. He could not tell me.

I have me brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility, with no history to guide them, and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words.

I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history.

I wanted to show the history and strength of all kinds of black women. Working women, country women, urban women, great women in the history of the United States.

It will yet be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible.

The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women

And we find from Church history that the primitive Christians thus understood it; for that women did actually speak and preach amongst them we have indisputable proof.

There is no life that does not contribute to history.

Women's history is women's right-an essential, indispensable heritage from which we can draw pride, comfort, courage, and long range vision.

Remember our heritage is our power; we can know ourselves and our capacities by seeing that other women have been strong.

Women are like puzzles because prior to 1920 neither had the right to vote. Puzzles still don't.

Women with pasts interest men because they hope history will repeat itself.

The suppression of women's rights began with the suppression of women's rites.

I love fiction because in fiction you go into the thoughts of people, the little people, the people who were defeated, the poor, the women, the children that are never in history books.

Righteous women have changed the course of history and will continue to do so, and their influence will spread and grow exponentially throughout the eternities.

History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.

When WOMEN got the right to vote is when it all went downhill. Because that's when votes started being cast with emotion and uh, maternal instincts that government ought to reflect.

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.

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 worth knowing.

The real mistake of women was to let the memoir, the collective, the history, space of producing history - to let it in the hands of men.