"Men develop ideas and systems of explanation 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 what women before them had thought and taught. So generation after generation, they [struggle] for insights others had already had before them, [resulting in] the constant inventing of the wheel."
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Gerda Lerner
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11 Quotes by Gerda Lerner
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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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The effect on men has been very bad, too, of the omission of women's history, because men have been given…
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Everything that explains the world has in fact explained a world that does not exist, a world in which men…
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The system of patriarchy is a historic construct; it has a beginning; it will have an end. Its time seems…
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The appeal of the New Right is simply that it seems to promise that nothing will change in the domestic…
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When I started working on women's history about thirty years ago, the field did not exist. People didn't think that…
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Long-term commitment to an intimate relationship with one person of whatever sex is an essential need that people have in…
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The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences, and that certain choices, once made, cannot…
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