"Women's history is the primary tool for women's……" — Gerda Lerner

"Women's history is the primary tool for women's emancipation."

— Gerda Lerner

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11 Quotes by Gerda Lerner

Gerda Lerner has 11 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Men develop ideas and systems of explanation by absorbing past knowledge and critiquing and superseding it. Women, ignorant of their…
Women's history is women's right-an essential, indispensable heritage from which we can draw pride, comfort, courage, and long range vision.
Black people cannot and will not become integrated into American society on any terms but those of self-determination and autonomy.
The effect on men has been very bad, too, of the omission of women's history, because men have been given…
Everything that explains the world has in fact explained a world that does not exist, a world in which men…
The system of patriarchy is a historic construct; it has a beginning; it will have an end. Its time seems…
The appeal of the New Right is simply that it seems to promise that nothing will change in the domestic…
When I started working on women's history about thirty years ago, the field did not exist. People didn't think that…
Long-term commitment to an intimate relationship with one person of whatever sex is an essential need that people have in…
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 Emancipation Quotes

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If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest… — Lord Acton
I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design… — John Adams
Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men. — Mortimer Adler
Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight… — Steven Biko
I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me. — Tori Amos
Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things because to demystify supposedly 'holy text dictated by god' and… — Christopher Hitchens
What we call emancipation is always and of necessity simply the free choice of the soul between one set of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I wouldn't say that religion has promoted the social progress of mankind. I say that it has been a detriment… — Unknown Author
The melting pot failed to function in one crucial area. Religions and nationalities, however different, generally learned to live together,… — Theodore Hesburgh
The fact that an African American sits in the White House at the helm of government in the United States… — Aberjhani
The Emancipation Proclamation...can remind us in 2013 of all the mistakes we never want to commit again but it can… — Aberjhani
For souls in growth, great quarrels are great emancipations. — Logan Pearsall Smith

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