Quotes About History

I'll admit, my fascination with Lesley Hornby is entirely about her looks. I don't feel unfeminist saying that, because she was a professional model at a moment in history that I am mildly obsessed with.

Churchill didn't dance around the Nazis; he called it fascism.

The United States is not, nor has ever been, anything close to a fascist country.

I had no road map for fatherhood; I had no personal history to draw from.

Writing about dead white males seems to be out of favor among academics.

Fallout shelters are like bell-bottoms. They've gone in and out of favor.

I love history, and Churchill is one of my favorite people to study. He's a fascinating, fascinating man.

'The Bottoms' or 'A Fine Dark Line' are two of my favorites.

As history has shown, I don't think the UFC is in the business of doing favors for other people.

Rome is one of my favourite cities in the world.

As fearsome as Covid-19 is, it is not the Nazis.

Feathers predate birds.

I've always been fascinated by different feats of strength throughout history.

This is a Disney animated feature; it's eternal, it's history. What's there to think about'

The Daytona 500 is what it is because of the tradition and history of this great event. People have been coming out in February since 1950 to watch this great race. It would be hard to ever change that.

There hasn't been this much excitement since the Romans fed the Christians to the Lions.

I love cooking for the sake of understanding how people before me used to feed themselves, used to feed their families.

A lot of my designs are inspired by the 1930s, when people were fabulous at dressing up. Then it just all kind of fell away.

I'm a four-time champion. The second female to ever compete in the Royal Rumble, amongst many, many other accolades.

Feminism rotates between backlash and interest. And the cool thing about the Internet is that it's allowing women more access to their own history. Part of the problem before the Internet was that we didn't know which books to read. Someone had to tell you.

I wasn't an active feminist in the '60s, never have been.

I am a feminist, although I always worry saying that because you then get people asking you about the 1970s.

Sometimes it feels like the feminist movement never happened.

I took my teaching responsibilities very seriously... I taught some great courses: Legal history to feminist theory, courses in American mass culture... I love teaching - I mean really love it.