Quotes About History

1st Valentine's Day: 200,000 BC men and women congregate on opposite sides of Pangaea, waiting for someone to make the first move.

The National Federation of Republican Women has a long history of helping bring women into the political process while promoting the Republican cause.

Great women belong to history and to self-sacrifice, not to the annals of a stage, however dignified.

Despite all the progress of civilization, women have remained exactly as they emerged from the hand of Nature.

I didn't know a lot about Amelia before I started flying. And as a woman and a pilot, I should have known more.

In the history of women's tennis the great players have come back from long absences with no problems.

Men feared witches and burned women.

women have no existence except in love; the history of their life begins and ends with love!

I went to college somewhere between the invention of the iPad and the discovery of fire... but I had gone to a women's college.

We women are doing pretty well. We're almost back to where we were in the twenties.

The Shriver Report presents an accurate and detailed portrait of American women and families at this transformational moment in our history.

I think that one of the tasks of feminist women - mainly women of culture - in our time is to seek out those women who were only forgotten because they were women.

In cultural history, the civil rights movement came before the women's movement.

There needs to be more women scholars, and that is not something new, we need to return to the glorified past and get more women scholars involved to overcome the Fetahs of patriarchy.

Black women have not historically stood in the pulpit, but that doesn't undermine the fact that they built the churches and maintain the pulpits.

It is imperative that young white men and women study the black American history. It is imperative that blacks and whites study the Asian American history.

Hip to the fact that well-behaved women rarely make history, Diane [Wilson] has already inspired a new movement of totally uncontrollable, irresistible and unreasonable women!

It felt like an oversight to me, something that needed to be corrected. They [women who hid Jewish children] deserved to be understood and remembered.

The women of the French Resistance astounded me. Isabelle and Vianne [from The Nightingale] are my homage to those brave and forgotten women.

As history shows, childless women in America eventually provoke hysteria.

There was a great sense of community mainly among the women artists at the time because we felt left out. I still know most of the women that I knew then, the ones that are still alive.

Women had no clerical role anywhere in the Western world, period.

I'm offended by the is-ought fallacy, which has been used to justify slavery, women not being allowed to vote, children working in factories.

A woman was the property of her father or her husband and that remained true right into the twentieth century. It wasn't until 1975 that women had a guaranteed right to serve on federal juries.