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

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Gerda Lerner

Gerda Lerner was an American historian renowned for her contributions to gender studies and women's history. Her research emphasized the role of women in the historical process and advanced the narrative of gender equality in history. more

“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.”

“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.”

Men World Humans Doe Facts Helping Enterprise Margins

Author: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 serves the needs of men or women and in its inextricable linkage to militarism, hierarchy, and racism it threatens the very existence of life on earth. What will come after, what kind of structure will be the foundation for alternate forms of social organization we cannot yet know. We are living in an age of unprecedented transformation. We are in the process of becoming.”

“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.”

People Thinking Seems Lasts Left Force Promise Appeals Realms Terrified Conservatism

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.”

People Thinking Years Knowing Fields Years Ago Thirty Thirty Years

Author:Gerda Lerner

“I don't think photography has anything remotely to do with the brain. It has to do with eye appeal.”

Thinking Eye Brain Beauty Photography Appeals

Author:Horst P. Horst

“Fashion is an expression of the times. Elegance is something else again.”

Fashion Expression Elegance

Author:Horst P. Horst

“You can't get a bad picture out of Bacall. There's nothing eccentric about her. She's perfect all over and yet she looks like nobody else.”

Looks Perfect Eccentric

Author:Louise Dahl-Wolfe

“Many men admire strong women but they don't love them. Some women succeed at being strong and also tender, but most of those who have intended to walk alone, making their own way, have lost their happiness.”

Men Way Lost Strong Walks Succeed Admire Strong Women

Author:Elsa Schiaparelli

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