For boys, the family was the place from which one sprang and to which one returned for comfort and support, but the field of action was the larger world of wilderness, adventure, industry, labor, and politics. For girls, the family… — 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)
