“Women’s history is the primary tool for women’s emancipation.”
Gerda Lerner“Women’s history is the primary tool for women’s emancipation.”
Gerda Lerner“perhaps the greatest challenge to thinking women is the challenge to move from the desire for safety and approval to the most "unfeminine" quality of all -- that of intllectual arrogance, the supreme hubris which asserts to itself the right to reorder the world. The Hubris of the god makers, the hubris of the male-system builders.”
Gerda Lerner“Marriage is a core component of the patriarchal system. According to Gerda Lerner's research on ancient societies, a woman could achieve at least some status, and with that, better treatment and privileges, through preserving her only capital – her virginity – and eventually offering it to just one man.”
Jenny Nordberg, The Underground Girls of Kabul