Women's history is women's right-an essential, indispensable heritage from which we can draw pride, comfort, courage, and long range vision.
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
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 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 …
The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences, and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone. - Gerda Lerner
The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences, and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone.
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
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.…
. . . 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
. . . black women . . . are trained from childhood to become workers, and expect to be financially self-supporting for most of their lives. They know…
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
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…
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
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…
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
Autonomy means women defining themselves and the values by which they will live, and beginning to think of institutional arrangements which will orde…
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
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