Quotes About History

People have been writing premature obituaries on the women's movement since its beginning.

I think men have always been afraid of women's sexuality, and the restrictions they put on women testify to that.

We don't have a clear path forward, and that's been the case for feminism since the 18th century, when the idea of the rights of women actually began.

Women have been denied access to advanced methods of self discovery throughout the ages.

Beware of a woman who signeth not her name to her letters; she will bear watching, aye, she hath a past.

There have been women in the past far more daring than we would need to be now, who ventured all and gained a little, but survived after all.

They would say well there's always been wars, men have always beaten women. But it isn't true in all cultures. It doesn't have to be true. And the first step is imaging.

The women's movement was coming, but I didn't know it in 1956-1957, when I began to write.

Violence against women is as American as apple pie. I know, not only as a legislator, but from personal experience.

Why are women so fond of raking up the past? They're as bad as tailors, who invariably remember what you owe them for a suit long after you've ceased to wear it.

In some countries we have had the right to vote for less than 100 years, so the entry of women into political leadership has caused a tsunami.

Women have invented nothing in all that, except the men who were born as male babies and grew up to be men big enough to be killed fighting.

In human history who hold the reigns of political power, and there are some women who were very much a team player during their husband's oppressive regime.

Within the stable economy it's necessary to eliminate all forms of sexual discrimination, and to provide women for the first time in our history with economic opportunities equal to those of men.

The dilemma for women - writing after everything else was finished - has prevented women from reaching their literary potential for centuries.

I guess I've played a lot of victims, but that's what a lot of the history of women is about.

The white woman has never had the co-equal status that the African woman has had.

As with all forms of liberation, of which the liberation of women is only one example, it is easy to suppose in a time of freedom that the darker days of repression can never come again.

So,high heels weren't a modern invention. I couldn't believe women had been putting up with these torture devices for centuries.

Women are defined by their biography, and men are sacrosanct from their biography.

As women, we're probably more protective of children. Also, we've been minors all of our history

Brigham Young had 47 children, and over 50 women as wives.

If women had never been given the right to vote, then Labour would have won every election after the war.

Afghan women, as a group, I think their suffering has been equaled by very few other groups in recent world history.