Women In History Quotes - Page 4

• I didn't see many female politicians on TV. I didn't see women in history textbooks, so I did geography, and art and English literature. But I know I must have been affected by not seeing women represented.

  Emma Watson

  Art, Female, Textbooks

  Interview with Geena Davis, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

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• Where the women go, the culture goes.

  Phylicia Rashad

  Culture

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• Our 'pathway' is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Shadow, Pathways, Women's Suffrage

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Ann Dexter Gordon, Susan Brownell Anthony (2000). “The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: Against an aristocracy of sex, 1866 to 1873”, p.126, Rutgers University Press

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• We ask only for justice and equal rights-the right to vote, the right to our own earnings, equality before the law.

  Lucy Stone

  Rights, Law, Justice

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• Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk.

  Dolores Huerta

  Walks, Streets, Sidewalk

  "Latino Poets Honor Civil Rights Leader Dolores Huerta at Smithsonian" by Patricia Guadalupe, www.nbcnews.com. March 9, 2016.

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• Stacy Schiff is that rare combination: a first-rate historian and a brilliant storyteller. Using a wide range of sources, she spins straw into gold, conjuring the world of Ptolemaic Egypt in full vibrant color, and returning the voice of one of the most powerful, fascinating, and maligned women in history. Cleopatra is impossible to put down.

  Rick Riordan

  Powerful, Egypt, Color

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• Despite the modern dogma to the effect that women were a subject sex until the nineteenth century 'emancipated' them from history, women in history had demonstrated strong wills and purposes, had made assertions, and had directed or influenced all human destiny, including their own, since human life began.

  Mary Ritter Beard

  Strong, Sex, Women

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• The truth has never been told about women in history: that everywhere man has gone woman has gone too, and what he has done she has done also. Women are ignorant of their own past and ignorant of their own importance in that past.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Past, Men, History

  Pearl S. Buck (1941). “Of Men and Women”

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• People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government - I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee - not to mention the diplomatic international experience.

  Carol Moseley Braun

  Government, People, Common Sense

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• For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.

  Cesare Pavese

  History, Doe, Lafayette

  Cesare Pavese (1961). “The Burning Brand: Diaries 1935-1950”, New York : Walker

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• Failure is impossible.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Failure, Positive Attitude, History

  Susan B. Anthony's remarks at her eighty-sixth birthday celebration, February 15, 1906.

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• Our society is so caught up in winning, we forget that most of the great men and women in history have, at one time or another, failed at something. Often repeatedly, and discouragingly. But each failure is nothing more than a brick in the wall that forms the foundation of our success. We can't forget that.

  Carleton Young

  Courage, Wall, Winning

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• ... over two hundred women, apparently at their own request, were sealed as wives to Joseph Smith after his death in special temple ceremonies. Moreover, a great many distinguished women in history, including several Catholic saints, were also sealed to Joseph Smith in Utah. I saw these astonishing lists in the Latter-day Saint Genealogical Archives in Salt Lake City in 1944.

  Fawn M. Brodie

  Utah, Cities, Two

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