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Dale Spender Quotes: 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.
         

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.


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Language helps form the limits of our reality.

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.

Language is not neutral. It is not merely a vehicle which carries ideas. It is itself a shaper of ideas.



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

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



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

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.

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.

... 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.





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Very depressed today. Unable to write a thing. Menacing gods. I feel outcast on a cold star, unable to feel anything but an awful helpless numbness.

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