In their quest for rights they [women] have naturally placed emphasis on their wrongs, rather than their achievements and possessions, and have retold history as a story of their long Martyrdom.
Source: Understanding Women, Ch. 1, 1931.
-- Mary Ritter Beard, (Aug 5 1876-1958), US historian, writer; She championed women's causes and labor movements in Woman as a Force in History, 1946.