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The effect on men has been very bad, too, of the omission of women's history, because men have been given the impression…
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The system of patriarchy is a historic construct; it has a beginning; it will have an end. Its time seems to have…
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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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Men develop ideas and systems of explanation by absorbing past knowledge and critiquing and superseding it. Women, ignorant of their own history…
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Women's history is women's right-an essential, indispensable heritage from which we can draw pride, comfort, courage, and long range vision.
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Black people cannot and will not become integrated into American society on any terms but those of self-determination and autonomy.
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Women's history is the primary tool for women's emancipation.
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Everything that explains the world has in fact explained a world that does not exist, a world in which men are at…
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And the king of Israel said unto Elisha, when he saw them, My father, shall I smite them? shall I smite them?…
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Young gentlemen, who are to display their knowledge to the world, should have every motive of emulation, should be formed into regular…
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People do not mind their faults being spread out before them, but they become impatient if called on to give them up.
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