Gerda Lerner Quotes
Women's history is women's right-an essential, indispensable heritage from which we can draw pride, comfort, courage, and long range vision.
The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences, and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone.
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.
Black people cannot and will not become integrated into American society on any terms but those of self-determination and autonomy.
nursing was regarded as simply an extension of the unpaid services performed by the housewife - a characteristic attitude that haunts the profession to this day.
