- Remember
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- Nov 07, 2020
History Quotes
Personal history and the record we leave.
Quotes about "history" here move between the personal and the public — early museum visits that shaped a scientific mindset, and a family history full of preachers and former priests. For enduring, timeless sayings, see Long quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started giving talks about women's history, one of the things that bothered me was the tendency to say, 'Well, everybody was totally oppressed and suddenly in 1964 we rose up, got our freedom, and here we are.' It dismisses the women who fought for rights for several hundred years of our history up to that point.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
The history of American women is all about leaving home - crossing oceans and continents, or getting jobs and living on their own.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
The history of American women is about the fight for freedom, but it's less a war against oppressive men than a struggle to straighten out the perpetually mixed message about women's role that was accepted by almost everybody of both genders.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Until Eleanor Roosevelt, there was only one or two First Ladies in all of American history who made an impact, who people could even have recognized or identified. And it's really only been since Jackie Kennedy that there's been this idea that the family life of the president is such a central thing.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I shop at a lot of vintage stores because the prices are amazing, and I love the idea that there's a history behind the piece I'm wearing.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we do a little bit of insight into history, how many times have there been people doing hate discourse, blaming everything on a certain group of people. That really is the genesis of genocide, where it kind of sparks.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
Personally, I can't take the blame for what politicians did in 1982. I can't take on some kind of revenge or change history. I want to beat England because I want to win every game I play, but not because we went to war in 1982 or because we played against each other in 1998.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.
- Nov 07, 2020
When you write for a comic series, many superheroes have 60 or some years of history that you are coming into.
- Looks
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Air' is what the world looks like: An inconvenient mashup of human politics and divine geography. We leave bits and pieces of ourselves and our history in every place we encounter.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I googled 'Gabby Douglas,' and all these things popped up like 'Gabby Douglas makes history!' And 'She's the champion!'
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things that's important about family is the narrative history they create for themselves.
- Tragic
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- Nov 07, 2020
World history is tragic.
- Development
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- Nov 07, 2020
All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020