"I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history"

"Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent"

"The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down"

"Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked"

"Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve"

"History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon"

"Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed"

"History is a set of lies agreed upon"

"A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect"

"We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans"

"Women are responsible for creating their own roles"