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's press, and a woman's bank run by and for women, I could no longer accept… — Dale Spender Copy Share Image
“Feminism has fought no wars. It has killed no opponents. It has set up no concentration camps, starved no enemies, practiced no cruelties. Its… — Dale Spender Copy Share Image
Feminism has fought no wars. It has killed no opponents. It has set up no concentration camps, starved no enemies, practiced no cruelties. Its… — Dale Spender Copy Share Image
men have been in charge of according value to literature, and ... they have found the contributions of their own sex immeasurably superior. — Dale Spender Copy Share Image
The talkativeness of women has been gauged in comparison not with men but with silence. Women have not been judged on the grounds of… — Dale Spender Copy Share Image
Paradoxically, the most constructive thing women can do is to write, for in the act of writing we deny our muteness and begin to… — Dale Spender Copy Share Image
Men who teach only men are called scholars. Women who teach only women are called political agitators. — Dale Spender Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
men have their cake and get to eat it too, for while they decree themselves as representative of humanity, women who argue that men… — Dale Spender Copy Share Image
Feminism has fought no wars ... killed no opponents ... set up no concentration camps ... starved no enemies ... practiced no cruelty. Its… — Dale Spender Copy Share Image
There is a real split today between those who push the button and those who do the dying. — Dale Spender Copy Share Image
When women are supposed to be quiet, a talkative woman is a woman who talks at all. — Dale Spender Copy Share Image
Language is not neutral. It is not merely a vehicle which carries ideas. It is itself a shaper of ideas. — Dale Spender Copy Share Image
what has been termed 'correct' English is nothing other than the blatant legitimation of the white middle-class code. — Dale Spender Copy Share Image
Openly questioning the way the world works and challenging the power of the powerful is not an activity customarily rewarded. — Dale Spender Copy Share Image
