Occupation: Writer Birth: September 22, 1943
This monopoly over language is one of the means by which males have ensured their own primacy, and consequently have ensured the invisibility or 'oth….
When women are supposed to be quiet, a talkative woman is a woman who talks at all..
men have their cake and get to eat it too, for while they decree themselves as representative of humanity, women who argue that men are not, are simp….
Paradoxically, the most constructive thing women can do is to write, for in the act of writing we deny our muteness and begin to eliminate some of th….
When I learnt, however, that in 1911 there had been twenty-one regular feminist periodicals in Britain, that there was a feminist book shop, a woman'….
The talkativeness of women has been gauged in comparison not with men but with silence. Women have not been judged on the grounds of whether they tal….
men have been in charge of according value to literature, and ... they have found the contributions of their own sex immeasurably superior..
Sexual harassment is becoming the modus operandi of the new world (on-line)... It is the means by which some males are conquering and claiming the ne….
For centuries women have been saying many of the things we are saying today and which we have often thought of as new..
... for centuries there has been a long and honorable tradition of women who have resisted and protested against men and their power..
I know there is no danger that I will ever forget that people construct their own reality, that human beings are not led to the same version of event….
what has been termed 'correct' English is nothing other than the blatant legitimation of the white middle-class code..
It is partly the absence of recorded history which sends women now to the lives of women past for the detailed documentation of their daily lives..
Feminism has fought no wars ... killed no opponents ... set up no concentration camps ... starved no enemies ... practiced no cruelty. Its battles ha….
Every medium - oral, written, print, and now electronic - has its own associated thought patterns and mind sets..
Have you noticed that all the news, statistics, strategies about unemployment are provided by those who are employed? As soon as you are unemployed y….
Language helps form the limits of our reality..
Language is not neutral. It is not merely a vehicle which carries ideas. It is itself a shaper of ideas..
There is a real split today between those who push the button and those who do the dying..
Well into the 19th century there were pronouncements from just about every branch of science and medicine that reading, writing, and thinking were da….
Men who teach only men are called scholars. Women who teach only women are called political agitators..