Some thoughtful, inspiring, interesting, entertaining, informative statements by American historian and women history writer Gerda Lerner

Gerda Hedwig Lerner (née Kronstein), born April 30, 1920 in Vienna, Austria, was a renowned American historian and author of women's history. In addition to his numerous scholarly publications, he wrote poetry, fiction, theater works, screenplays, and autobiography. He served as president of the Organization of American Historians from 1980 to 1981. In 1980 she was appointed Robinson Edwards Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where Gerda taught until her retirement in 1991. Gerda Lerner edited Black Women in White America A Documentary History (1972), which details 350 years of contributions of black women to history despite centuries of being enslaved and treated as property. It was one of the first books to detail the contributions of black women to history. Gerda died on January 2, 2013 in Madison, Wisconsin. Here are some thoughtful, inspiring, interesting, entertaining, informative statements by Gerda Lerner.

This cooperation is secured through various means, gender principles, educational deprivation, depriving women of knowledge of their history, dividing women from each other by defining respect. By sheer coercion, by discriminating in access to economic resources and political power and by granting class privileges to conforming women.

There was a long time gap between the subordination of women and the fall of the gods and goddesses in the patriarchal society. As we trace back the changes in the status of male and female deities in the pantheon over a period of more than a thousand years, we must keep in mind that the power of the goddesses and their priestesses in daily life and popular religion was greater than that of the supreme goddesses. This continued with force even after he was dethroned. It is noteworthy that in societies where women were subordinated economically, educationally and legally, the spiritual and spiritual power of the Goddess remained active and strong.

Men develop ideas and systems of explanation by absorbing and criticizing and replacing past knowledge. Women ignorant of their own history do not know what the women before them had thought and taught. So from generation to generation, they struggle for the insight that others had before them.

Perhaps the greatest challenge to women's thinking is the challenge of moving from the desire for security and approval to the most unfeminine quality of all, intellectual arrogance, the supreme ego that claims for itself the right to reorder the world. The ego of the God creators, the ego of the man-system creators.

Women's history is the primary tool for women's liberation.

Stepping out of patriarchal thinking means being skeptical of every known system of thought, being critical of all beliefs, system values and definitions. Testing someone's statement by relying on your own female experience. Since such experiences have usually been trivialized or ignored, it means overcoming deep-seated resistance within yourself to accepting yourself and your knowledge as valid. It means getting rid of the great men in your mind and replacing them with yourself, your sisters, your unnamed ancestors.

First of all, no one gave us anything. When I hear that they have given us the franchise I get angry. Excuse me? It took 72 years of tireless, unbroken, organized grassroots effort to win women the right to vote. It took 113 years to get rid of child labor by law. Any progress in social policy took an equally long period of organized effort to accomplish.

To be without history is to be trapped in a present where oppressive social relations seem natural and inevitable.

The main thing that history can teach us is that human actions have consequences, and some choices once made cannot be undone. They close off the possibility of making other choices and thus they determine future events.

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