Gerda Lerner Quotes

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• 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…
• Women's history is women's right-an essential, indispensable heritage from which we can draw pride, comfort, courage, and long range vision.
• Black people cannot and will not become integrated into American society on any terms but those of self-determination and autonomy.
• Women's history is the primary tool for women's emancipation.
• 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 much…
• Everything that explains the world has in fact explained a world that does not exist, a world in which men are at the center of…
• The system of patriarchy is a historic construct; it has a beginning; it will have an end. Its time seems to have nearly run its…
• The appeal of the New Right is simply that it seems to promise that nothing will change in the domestic realm. People are terrified of…
• 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 worth…
• 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 qualities…
• The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences, and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone.

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