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 the difficulties that have been put upon us.
men have been in charge of according value to literature, and ... they have found the contributions of their own sex immeasurably superior. - Dale Spender
men have been in charge of according value to literature, and ... they have found the contributions of their own sex immeasurably superior.
- Dale Spender
Language is not neutral. It is not merely a vehicle which carries ideas. It is itself a shaper of ideas. - Dale Spender
Language is not neutral. It is not merely a vehicle which carries ideas. It is itself a shaper of ideas.
For centuries women have been saying many of the things we are saying today and which we have often thought of as new. - Dale Spender
For centuries women have been saying many of the things we are saying today and which we have often thought of as new.
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… - Dale Spender
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…
Language helps form the limits of our reality. - Dale Spender
Language helps form the limits of our reality.
Men who teach only men are called scholars. Women who teach only women are called political agitators. - Dale Spender
Men who teach only men are called scholars. Women who teach only women are called political agitators.
When women are supposed to be quiet, a talkative woman is a woman who talks at all. - Dale Spender
When women are supposed to be quiet, a talkative woman is a woman who talks at all.
... for centuries there has been a long and honorable tradition of women who have resisted and protested against men and their power. - Dale Spender
... for centuries there has been a long and honorable tradition of women who have resisted and protested against men and their power.
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… - Dale Spender
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…
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