In the final analysis, after a lifetime spent as a writer and as a historian, I must take a stand in my own right. History matters to me, for the man… - Gerda Lerner

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

I have documented 700 years of feminist bible criticism prior to 1870, and every woman who engaged in that feminist bible criticism thought she was the first woman ever to do this. And when Elizabeth Cady Stanton in 1893, published the Woman’s Bible, she put in the forward, “No woman before me has ever done this.” This is tragic, because it symbolizes the true position that women held in the world, which was to think, each woman thought, and each man taught each woman to think, and each mother taught their sons and daughters to think, that women have not contributed significantly to the creation of thought, to the creation of culture, and to the creation of civilization. This is a lie, all right?

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.