Quotes About History

I really want to help write women back into history.

Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.

Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate.

For centuries women have been saying many of the things we are saying today and which we have often thought of as new.

Centuries ago it may have been difficult for pregnant women and their children to get proper nourishment, probably leading to smaller - and therefore shorter-lived - adults.

Women of vanquished races are usually very prone to wed with the men who have slaughtered their kindred in battle.

I think that feminists have definitely underestimated the role that women have had historically. I think I would be insecure if I were to be a man; there's so much pressure on you.

We were fortunate enough to have several good books detailing the camps and the women. Some were by the survivors. I also got to talk to some of the women who had been in the camp, survivors.

We knew it was going to be the biggest event scheduled in the history of women's sports, but we didn't ever fathom we would be playing before sold-out stadiums all over the country.

War is not women's history.

Russia is the only place where men and women can be free.

Women rule the world. It's not really worth fighting because they know what they're doing. Ask Napoleon. Ask Adam. Ask Richard Burton or Richie Sambora. Many a man has crumbled.

The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever created by the human mind.

If women really want equality, we have to wipe the slate clean. It no longer matters in the largest sense what men did to us for the last 200 or 300 years.

Women made up 44% of Olympic competitors at London 2012 - the greatest show of gender equality in Olympic history. By comparison, in the 1908 Games men outnumbered women 53 to 1.

I stand on the shoulders of women who marched before me.

Good women are no fun... The only good woman I can recall in history was Betsy Ross. And all she ever made was a flag.

The men and women of the North are slaveholders, those of the South slaveowners. The guilt rests on the North equally with the South.

The history of women is the history of the worst form of tyranny the world has ever known. The tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.

There's a long, long history of women suffering abuse, injustice, and not having the same opportunities as men, and I think that's been very detrimental to the human race as a whole.

Women didn't have rights. Under British common law, women were property.

For women live much more in the past...they attach themselves to places.

Women's roles are diminished for obvious reasons. It's the men whose names are on the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and who were generals and soldiers.

I read a lot of articles about young women in the resistance. All of a sudden, I felt that if I go too much into this horror, then I won't be able to start as a fresh character.