Anita Sarkeesian Quotes

Women's value has been under-recognized for far too long.

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

The volumes which record the history of the human race are filled with the deeds and the words of great men ... [but] The Twentieth Century Woman ... questions the completeness of the story.

I think it's time that we have a women's show about the West. The concentration has been on the men and the Indians.

I've thought about what is an alternative word to feminism. There isn't one. It's a perfectly good word. And it can't be changed.

As a woman, a lot of stories haven't been told and we've got a lot of catching up to do.

I think there are many more stories still to be told about women.

There were all us baby boomers who had a grammar school education, started to learn, then went on the pill, the whole thing, and so there are today a lot more women writers, editors, producers, and so a lot more women's stories. God, the BBC's practically run by women.

Most historians and other writers of what we now consider 'primary sources' simply didn't think about women and their contribution to society. They took it for granted, except when that contribution or its lack directly affected men.

Every woman inspires me.

I like powerful women, and I gravitate to any point in history when a female has significant power. I can spend hours researching any such amazing lady, from Ching Shih to Hatshepsut to Boudica to Zenobia.

I've been working on the lost history of technical women.

I deplore the shying away that can go on, within women, from the term 'feminist.' I am, absolutely, all about being a feminist.

Every day, women move mountains. It is an insult to have an international women's day.

Women inspire me... so I enjoy women's stories and biographies. I am interested in all women.

When I started working on women's history about thirty years ago, the field did not exist…. People didn't think that women had a history worth knowing

Yes, I'm a suffragist.

When I think of the limitless potential my young daughters, Grace and Brynn, will have as they grow into young women, I want my girls' generation to remember the strength, determination, and struggles of the women who came before them and paved the way.

I've been writing American history for a long time, and I've had a hard time finding strong, interesting female characters. There are women, of course, in American history, but they're hard to write about because they don't leave much of a historical trace, and they're not usually involved in high-profile public events.

We have to give feminism a shot. Out of sheer self preservation, we have to stand aside and let women run the show.

We need to feminise history because we are 50 per cent of the population, and our story is just as interesting.

We all have to stand up and fight alongside American women to make sure that they have the freedom to control their own futures.

It is male-chauvinistic industry, and there's still a long way to go for the female-centric genre to come to the fore.

I've been a female activist since the time I was 13 years old.

I'm a woman, and I'm interested in writing stories from a female perspective.