“Autonomy means women defining themselves and the values by which they will live, and beginning to think of institutional arrangements which will order their environment in line with their needs.... Autonomy means moving out from a world in which one is born to marginality, to a past without meaning, and a future determined by others--into a world in which one acts and chooses, aware of a meaningful past and free to shape one's future.” ThinkingWorldNeedsMeanPastMovingValuesOrderBornLinesEnvironmentShapesIndependenceDeterminedMeaningfulArrangementsAutonomyDefiningMoving Out Author: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 important in the world than they actually are. It has fostered illusions of grandeur in every man that are unwarranted. If you can think as a man that everything great in the world and its civilization was created by men, then naturally you have to look down on women. And naturally, you have to have different aspirations for your sons and for your daughters.” IfsThinkingMenWorldLooksHas BeensImportantDifferentGivenEffectsSonCivilizationIllusionDaughterEvery ManImpressionAspirationGrandeurOur DaughterYour DaughterYour SonOmissionIllusions Of Grandeur Author:Gerda Lerner
“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.” PeopleThinkingSeemsLastsLeftForcePromiseAppealsRealmsTerrifiedConservatism Author:Gerda Lerner
“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.” PeopleThinkingYearsKnowingFieldsYears AgoThirtyThirty Years Author:Gerda Lerner
