“Women with pasts interest men because they hope history will repeat itself.”
“The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.”
“History that repeats itself turns to farce. Farce that repeats itself turns to history.”
“History repeating itself is history's oldest story.”
“History always repeats itself”
“History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other."[1880]”