Dale Spender Quotes
Language is not neutral. It is not merely a vehicle which carries ideas. It is itself a shaper of ideas.
This monopoly over language is one of the means by which males have ensured their own primacy, and consequently have ensured the invisibility or 'other' nature of females.
Men who teach only men are called scholars. Women who teach only women are called political agitators.
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 new territory as their own.
... for centuries there has been a long and honorable tradition of women who have resisted and protested against men and their power.
Openly questioning the way the world works and challenging the power of the powerful is not an activity customarily rewarded.
what has been termed 'correct' English is nothing other than the blatant legitimation of the white middle-class code.
There is a real split today between those who push the button and those who do the dying.
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.
For centuries women have been saying many of the things we are saying today and which we have often thought of as new.
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 events and of the world by the same physical evidence.
Have you noticed that all the news, statistics, strategies about unemployment are provided by those who are employed? As soon as you are unemployed you cease to exist.
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.
Every medium - oral, written, print, and now electronic - has its own associated thought patterns and mind sets.