Women's history is women's right-an essential, indispensable heritage from which we can draw pride, comfort, courage, and long range vision.
Gerda LernerThe main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences, and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone.
Gerda Lernernursing 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 LernerBlack people cannot and will not become integrated into American society on any terms but those of self-determination and autonomy.
Gerda LernerFor boys, the family was the place from which one sprang and to which one returned for comfort and support, but the field of action was the larger world of wilderness, adventure, industry, labor, and politics. For girls, the family was to be the world, their field of action the domestic circle. He was to express himself in his work and, through it and social action, was to help transform his environment; her individual growth and choices were restricted to lead her to express herself through love, wifehood, and motherhood--through the support and nurture of others, who would act for her.
Gerda Lerner