Quotes About History

We (women) take it for granted that we can do what we want. Not so very long ago, that was not the case.

One thing that Chairman Mao did was to end the appalling foot binding of women. That alone justifies the Mao Tse-tung era.

It is alleged that half a million Spanish men, women and children fled to France after the Franco victory.

Women waited 144 years before earning suffrage. If a mature, multiparty democracy was so darn easy, everybody would have one.

Like all his type, Newton was wholly aloof from women.

Men hand out cigars. Women 'hand out' babies. And thus the world, for thousands of years, has gone round.

What I have learned the most is that women have always been integral to shaping America; they just haven't been recognized across all fields.

The story of the eighties will be the story of the Reagan administration and the many men and women who served in it, some of whom are already out on parole.

I was very, very pro-women many years ago.

There is no "beginning" of feminism in the sense that there is no beginning to defiance in women.

People also don't understand how young the Panthers were - basically teenagers. And that they were over 50 percent women.

Thus the regime has deprived Iranian women not just of their present rights, but also of their history and their past.

Historically men have suppressed women quite effectively. They have suppressed women since the beginning of our history.

Women have been systematically pushed out of spirituality by men.

it is not the inferiority of women that has caused their historical insignificance; it is rather their historical insignificance that has doomed them to inferiority.

Women have been sexual slaves for most of recorded history.

I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.

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 remembered by.

I think almost everything important that's ever happened was unimaginable shortly before it happened. Good things and bad things: ending slavery, ending child labor, women voting, etc.

The history of silencing women is violent. And we feel that in our DNA. On a cellular level we know what it costs to speak our truth.

There's never been anybody in the history politics in America that's been so abusive to women. So you can say any way you want to say it, but Bill Clinton was abusive to women.

You can't tell the story of the women's movement through the story of one woman.

I don't think you can say that feminism has made women critical of marriage because women have been critical of marriage for centuries.

How few women have any history after the age of thirty!