“History is the essence of innumerable biographies.”
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher
On History.
1820s, Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827–1855)
“unloved women have no biographies-- they have histories”
Source: The Beautiful and Damned
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), History
“The history of the world is but the biography of great men.”
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher
1840s, Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840), The Hero as Divinity
“Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.”
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister
Part 1, Chapter 23.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Contarini Fleming (1832)
“The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.”
George Eliot book The Mill on the Floss
Book VI, ch. iii
The Mill on the Floss (1860)
“Wherever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed.”
Joseph Campbell (1904–1987) American mythologist, writer and lecturer
Source: The Hero With a Thousand Faces
Dana Arnold (1961) Middlessex uni prof
Source: Reading Architectural History (2002), Ch. 6 : Reading architectural herstories : The discourses of gender
Milan Kundera book The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Part I: Lost Letters (p. 22)
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1979)
Context: People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past. They are fighting for access to the laboratories where photographs are retouched and biographies and histories rewritten.
“Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.”
Erica Jong (1942) Novelist, poet, memoirist, critic