Quotes About History

It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, they typified for the Greeks.

So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war.

Dorothy is the only woman in history who has had her menopause in public and made it pay.

We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.

The modern woman is the curse of the universe. A disaster, that's what. She thinks that before her arrival on the scene no woman ever did anything worthwhile before, no woman was ever liberated until her time, no woman really ever amounted to anything.

I was the first woman to burn my bra - it took the fire department four days to put it out.

A woman's life is a history of the affections.

I am a feminist because I feel endangered, psychically and physically, by this society and because I believe that the women's movement is saying that we have come to an edge of history when men - insofar as they are embodiments of the patriarchical i.

To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.

It seems to me a certainty that the fatalistic teachings of Mohammed and the utter degradation of the Arab women are the outstanding causes for the arrested development of the Arab. He is exactly as he was around the year 700, while we have been developing.

I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.

Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burned, tortured, fined, and imprisoned, yet we have not advanced one inch toward uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half of the world fools and the other half hypocrites.

I asked a Burmese why women, after centuries of following their men, now walk ahead. He said there were many unexploded land mines since the war.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

I like men who have a future and women who have a past.

Well-behaved women rarely make history.

Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

You can't change past history. But, you can change the future's history by cleansing your soul today. Forget, forgive, and love passionately.

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.

19 th century literature is dead in this country

Socrates should have written comics.

know that for centuries Catholic priests were allowed to be married? It was the First Lateran Council that changed that in the twelfth century. When there was pushback from the clergy, the Vatican began arresting and killing the wives. Some were even sold into slavery. To avoid this happening to their loved ones, the priests accepted the new rules. In a gracious touch, the surviving wives were allowed to be considered widows by the pope rather than divorcées.

There has never in human history been a culture where optimism and cynicism existed side by side on such a scale as this, not even ancient Rome.

History, although sometimes made up of the few acts of the great, is more often shaped by the many acts of the small.