Gerda Lerner Quotes

#1. Gerda Lerner was fierce, brilliant and unique. She lived history by her bravery, restored history by her scholarship, and democratized its study by her activism.

Gloria Steinem

#2. Black people cannot and will not become integrated into American society on any terms but those of self-determination and autonomy.

Gerda Lerner

#3. 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

#4. 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 qualities out of which nurturing thought can rise.

Gerda Lerner

#5. The appeal of the New Right is simply that it seems to promise that nothing will change in the domestic realm. People are terrified of change there, because it's the last humanizing force left in society, and they think, correctly, that it must be retained.

Gerda Lerner

#6. When I go into making a movie, personally, I don't try to bring other pieces of movies with me.

Amber Heard

#7. Across thirty-two cities worldwide, people in 2006 were walking an average 10 percent faster than they were in 1994.

Richard O'Connor

#8. You can know a thing to death and be for all purposes completely ignorant of it.

Marilynne Robinson

#9. The virtue of a human being is the application of his capacity to the general good.

William Godwin

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

Gerda Lerner

#11. 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.

Gerda Lerner

#12. Everything that explains the world has in fact explained a world that does not exist, a world in which men are at the center of the human enterprise and women are at the margin 'helping' them. Such a world does not exist - never has.

Gerda Lerner

#13. I see you young and soft oh little baby
Little feet, little hands, little baby
One year of crying and the words creep up inside
Creep into your mind
So much to say

Dave Matthews

#14. Don't try to fix me, I'm not broken...

Evanescence

#15. The fruits of the earth are not brought to perfection immediately, but by time, rain and care; similarly, the fruits of men ripen through ascetic practice, study, time, perseverance, self-control and patience.

Anthony The Great

#16. What the pundits call wishy-washiness, the Bible calls repentance.

David Dark

#17. 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.

Gerda Lerner

#18. [There is a] depth and urgency of the search of Jewish and Christian women for connection to the Divine, which found expression in more than 1000 years of feminist Bible criticism and religious re-visioning.

Gerda Lerner

#19. As far as the Jews were concerned, Hitler's only 'prayer' was that they be wiped off the face of the earth,

Efraim Zuroff

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

Gerda Lerner