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History Quotes by Gerda Lerner
- 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.
- 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…
- 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…
- The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences, and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone.
More History Quotes
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song. — Louis Armstrong
- This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. — Neil Armstrong
- All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in… — Neil Armstrong
- In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic. — Julian Assange
- We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents… — Julian Assange
- Natural history is not about producing fables. — David Attenborough
- Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that… — David Attenborough
- In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes,… — David Attenborough