Women Written Out Of History Quotes

#1. The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.

Emma Goldman

#2. But if Maggie had been that young lady, you would probably have known nothing about her: her life would have had so few vicissitudes that it could hardly have been written; for the happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

George Eliot

#3. In the old times, women did not get their lives written, though I don't doubt many of them were much better worth writing than the men's.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#4. What a major mistake, having rejected pretty much all of the great talented female artists that have lived throughout the ages, art history is left incomplete. The validity of the written art history is as absent as those women left out.

Siren Waroe

#5. When the history of African development is written, it will be clear that a turning point involved the empowerment of women.

Sheryl WuDunn

#6. But up and down the lamplit roads Youth wandered , and Hope, and Love, arm held close in arm, full in faith, dreaming star-hued dreams.
Are not our dreams the lamps on a rainy road?

Ethel Carnie

#7. Zwounds, ye fat paunch, an ye call me a coward, by the Lord, I'll stab thee.

William Shakespeare

#8. There will be light in your eyes only if there are dreams in your heart.

Liu Shiying

#9. When women's true history shall have been written, her part in the upbuilding of this nation will astound the world.

Abigail Scott Duniway

#10. I am but a tiny thread in an infinite web of shimmering life, no more or less than the rocks and stars.

Dianne Sylvan

#11. Having the attitude of just playing the game isn't my strength. I have to be productive. That's my responsibility.

Jim Edmonds

#12. When I started researching history in the 1960s, a lot of women about whom I've subsequently written were actually footnotes to history. There was a perception that women weren't important. And it's true. Women were seen historically as far inferior to men.

Alison Weir

#13. Well all tai chi has the martial aspect to it, a lot of people don't know, a lot of the teachers won't show it, or they do show it but you don't really learn it, what the application is.

Lou Reed

#14. The history of civilization could actually be written in terms of the level of its women.

Fulton J. Sheen