Attitude Quote by Gerda Lerner

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

Black people cannot and will not become integrated into American society on any terms but those of self-determination and autonomy.

— Gerda Lerner

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

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

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

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

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

“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

The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences, and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone.

— Gerda Lerner

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

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

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