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

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

Language helps form the limits of our reality.

- Dale Spender

Men who teach only men are called scholars. Women who teach only women are called political agitators.

- Dale Spender

When women are supposed to be quiet, a talkative woman is a woman who talks at all.

- Dale Spender

... for centuries there has been a long and honorable tradition of women who have resisted and protested against men and their power.

- 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…

- 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…

- Dale Spender