Gerda Lerner Quotes

When I started working on women's history about thirty years ago, the field did not exist. People didn't think that women had a history worth knowing.

The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences, and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone.

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

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.