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Gerda Lerner on Women

1920–2013 Austria

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We now know that man is not the measure of that which is human, but men and women are.

Women's History is indispensable and essential to the emancipation of women.

The Creation of Patriarchy (1986)

What I was learning in graduate school did not so much leave out continents and their people as it left out half the human race, women.

The majority finds its past (1979)

As I began to work on my research priorities, the absence of black women from history appeared to me as an urgent problem to be considered.

The majority finds its past (1979)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Gerda Lerner (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.