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History provides an antidote to cynicism about the past.

I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history.

A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

I was gravely warned by some of my female acquaintances that no woman could expect to be regarded as a lady after she had written a book.

Ah, beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings.

Women's stories have been neglected for so long - unless they were queens. Exploring the history of women is a way of redressing that imbalance.

I've always been told that women know everything. Is that not accurate?

The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find.

The marvelous thing is that for thousands of years people have continued questioning and searching and ultimately concluding that reasons for certain occurrences are not given to man to know.

Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.