Everything that explains the world has in fact explained a world that does not exist, a world in … - Gerda Lerner

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In France, I am so free. I have more freedom than most American directors could dare to even imagine.

Gerda Lerner

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.

Doe, Explained, Helping, Men, World

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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.

Life, Living, Men, Needs, Running

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

Emancipation, History, Primaries, Tool, Tools

The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences, and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone.

Actions Have Consequences, Certain, Choices, Consequences, Undone

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.

Aspirations, Daughter, Daughters, History, Men, Son

Women's history is women's right-an essential, indispensable heritage from which we can draw pride, comfort, courage, and long range vision.

Essential, Long, Pride, Vision

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