The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.

Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.

The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.

I'm not feeling very well - I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest golf course.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

Men [sic] make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past.

(Marx, 1963)