. . . black women . . . are trained from childhood to become workers, and expect to be financially self-supporting for most of their lives. They know they will have to work, whether they are married or single; work… — Gerda Lerner Copy Share Image
Autonomy means women defining themselves and the values by which they will live, and beginning to think of institutional arrangements which will order their… — Gerda Lerner Copy Share Image
Black people cannot and will not become integrated into American society on any terms but those of self-determination and autonomy. — Gerda Lerner Copy Share Image
The system of patriarchy is a historic construct; it has a beginning; it will have an end. Its time seems to have nearly run… — Gerda Lerner Copy Share Image
Women's history is women's right-an essential, indispensable heritage from which we can draw pride, comfort, courage, and long range vision. — Gerda Lerner Copy Share Image
We can learn from history how past generations thought and acted, how they responded to the demands of their time and how they solved… — Gerda Lerner Copy Share Image
When I started working on women's history about thirty years ago, the field did not exist. People didn't think that women had a history… — Gerda Lerner Copy Share Image
The effect on men has been very bad, too, of the omission of women's history, because men have been given the impression that they're… — Gerda Lerner Copy Share Image
“perhaps the greatest challenge to thinking women is the challenge to move from the desire for safety and approval to the most "unfeminine" quality… — Gerda Lerner Copy Share Image
The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences, and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone. — Gerda Lerner Copy Share Image
Everything that explains the world has in fact explained a world that does not exist, a world in which men are at the center… — Gerda Lerner Copy Share Image
Men develop ideas and systems of explanation by absorbing past knowledge and critiquing and superseding it. Women, ignorant of their own history [do] not… — Gerda Lerner Copy Share Image
Long-term commitment to an intimate relationship with one person of whatever sex is an essential need that people have in order to breed the… — Gerda Lerner Copy Share Image
![“Men develop ideas and systems of explanation by absorbing past knowledge and critiquing and superseding it. Women, ignorant of their own history [do] not know what women before them had thought and taught. So generation after generation, they [struggle] for insights others had already had before…” quote by Gerda Lerner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/01f/gerda-lerner-28685_constant_men-develop-ideas-and-systems-of-explana_1757578.jpg)
