“For 4,000 years, men have defined culture by looking at the activities of other men. The minute we started questioning it, the first question was, `Well, when are you going to stop separating yourself out and mainstream?' ‘Give us another 4,000 years," Dr. Lerner responded, "and we'll talk about mainstreaming.’ “
Dr. Gerda Lerner (Professor of History University of Wisconsin-Madison, one of the founders of the academic field of “Women’s History”)