"The effect on men has been very bad,……" — 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 much more important in the world than they actually are. It has fostered illusions of grandeur in every man that are unwarranted. If you can think as a man that everything great in the world and its civilization was created by men, then naturally you have to look down on women. And naturally, you have to have different aspirations for your sons and for your daughters."
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Gerda Lerner
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11 Quotes by Gerda Lerner
Gerda Lerner has 11 quotes on this site.
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Men develop ideas and systems of explanation by absorbing past knowledge and critiquing and superseding it. Women, ignorant of their…
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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…
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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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More Aspiration Quotes
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A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by…
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To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite,…
— Charles Baudelaire
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The specific is not exclusive: it lacks the aspiration to totality.
— Theodor Adorno
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Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them…
— Allan Bloom
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Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything…
— Victor Borge
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In the globalized world that is ours, maybe we are moving towards a global village, but that global village brings…
— Lakhdar Brahimi
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Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?
— Robert Browning
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Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up…
— Louisa May Alcott
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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.
— William Ellery Channing
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You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration.
— James Allen
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To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve.
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