29 Quotes About Women-s-history

I pray every single moment of my life; not on my knees but with my work. My prayer is to lift women to equality with men. Work and worship are one with me.

We must never confuse professionalism with expertise. Expertise is something to work for and to share; professionalism is--by definition--elitist and exclusive, sexist, racist, and classist.

Her life was expected to be as anonymous as the era's needlework.

Listen!" I told him. "Down in the world a new thing has been born since you and I were there. They call it a Suffragette.""A new star, did you say? What are her dimensions? What hemisphere is she swinging over? Has she come to stay?""God bless her! It seems so," I said when I could speak

But what, I ask, was life really like? What hard evidence do we have for what we might want to know about women's lives? No evidence means no real knowledge.

I believe that in each of us there is a small piece of history. In one half a page, in another two or three. Together we write the book of time. We each call out our own truth. The nightmare of nuances.

So there was no one with whom I could share my bitter cup of poison. I would simply have to swallow the injustice down and lie about the taste until it killed me. Or until the shame of it burned me alive.

They inhabited a lost world of splendour and brutality, a world dominated by religious change, in which there were few saints.

Until quite recently women's histories were largely overlooked but in the wake of feminism there has been increasing interest in retrieving them.