Durst/history

Famous quotes containing the words durst and/or history:

“Never durst poet touch a pen to write
Until his ink were tempered with love’s sighs.
O then his lines would ravish savage ears,
And plant in tyrants mild humility.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Like their personal lives, women’s history is fragmented, interrupted; a shadow history of human beings whose existence has been shaped by the efforts and the demands of others.”
—Elizabeth Janeway (b. 1913)