"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."

Source : "Women and History Part I: The Creation of Patriarchy with Gerda Lerner". Interview with Jeffrey Mishlove, www.intuitionnetwork.org.

Gerda Lerner

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“Life operates by deserve. So, in leading people, learn to work with the people who deserve it, not the people who need it.”
“The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public.”
“The funny thing is, people's perceptions of what a song is about is usually wrong a majority of the time. But they're still going to read what they want to into it.”
“To the extent that we hyper-separate ourselves from nature and reduce it conceptually in order to justify domination, we not only lose the ability to empathise and to see the non-human sphere in ethical terms, but also get a false sense of our own character and location that includes an illusory sense of autonomy. The failure to see the non-human domain in the richer terms appropriate to ethics licences supposedly â€˜purely instrumentalâ€™ relationships that distort our perceptions and enframings, impoverish our relations and make us insensitive to dependencies and interconnections”

Source : Val Plumwood (2005). “Environmental Culture: The Ecological Crisis of Reason”, p.9, Routledge
“If your life's work can be accomplished in your lifetime, you're not thinking big enough.”
“The implication that everyone would have to accept its judgments uncritically, that it was a decision from which there could be no appeal, was astonishing.”

Source : United States. Dept. of Justice, Edwin Meese (1989). “Major Policy Statements of the Attorney General: Edwin Meese III, 1985-1988”
“If you need a machine and don't buy it, then you will ultimately find that you have paid for it and don't have it.”
“Yes, ruling by fooling, is a great British art with great Irish fools to practice on.”

Source : James Connolly (1973). “Quotations from James Connolly: An Anthology in Parts”

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