Men develop ideas and systems of explanation by absorbing past knowledge and critiquing and superseding it. Women, ignorant of their own history [do]…

- 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 its course—it no longer …

- 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

We can learn from history how past generations thought and acted, how they responded to the demands of their time and how they solved their problems.…

- Gerda Lerner

. . . black women . . . are trained from childhood to become workers, and expect to be financially self-supporting for most of their lives. They know…

- 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 impor…

- 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 qualitie…

- Gerda Lerner

Autonomy means women defining themselves and the values by which they will live, and beginning to think of institutional arrangements which will orde…

- 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