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title: "10 Language Women Quotes by 9 authors"
description: "Browse 10 Language Women quotes by 9 authors. Discover the best Language Women sayings and thoughts."
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> [We must learn to speak the language women speak when there is no one there to correct us.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-ne-cixous/we-must-learn-to-speak-the-language-women-speak-when-there-is-no-one/)

[Helene Cixous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-ne-cixous/)

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> [“To the bachelor, the language of women is mystery. In those matters, a married man is already a scholar”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bangambiki-habyarimana/to-the-bachelor-the-language-of-women-is-mystery-in-those-matters-a/)

[Bangambiki Habyarimana](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bangambiki-habyarimana/)

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> [Explore the idea of what the language that women speak would really be like if no one were there to correct them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-ne-cixous/explore-the-idea-of-what-the-language-that-women-speak-would-really/)

[Helene Cixous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-ne-cixous/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d2/h-l-ne-cixous-3823_feminism_explore-the-idea-of-what-the-language-th_2885876.jpg)

> [The language of women should be luminous, but not voluminous.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/douglas-william-jerrold/the-language-of-women-should-be-luminous-but-not-voluminous/)

[Douglas William Jerrold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/douglas-william-jerrold/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/093/douglas-william-jerrold-9046_feminism_the-language-of-women-should-be-luminous_902328.png)

> [So women are at the beginning of building a language, and not all women are conscious of it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judy-chicago/so-women-are-at-the-beginning-of-building-a-language-and-not-all/)

[Judy Chicago](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judy-chicago/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c78/judy-chicago-22061_building_so-women-are-at-the-beginning-of-buildin_916108.jpg)

> [Word by word, the language of women so often begins with a whisper.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-tempest-williams/word-by-word-the-language-of-women-so-often-begins-with-a-whisper/)

[Terry Tempest Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-tempest-williams/)

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> [I think that’s what Toni Morrison and Alice Walker understand, the secret language of women. That it’s not a secret at all;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marlon-james/i-think-that-s-what-toni-morrison-and-alice-walker-understand-the/)

[Marlon James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marlon-james/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3d2/marlon-james-10052_language_i-think-that-s-what-toni-morrison-and-al_1236875.jpg)

> [The great arbiters of language are the women who speak it in the presence of children... What the women pass on to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlton-laird/the-great-arbiters-of-language-are-the-women-who-speak-it-in-the/)

[Charlton Laird](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlton-laird/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7ee/charlton-laird-34745_arbiter_the-great-arbiters-of-language-are-the-w_357011.jpg)

> [We've got to change the language of how women speak to women and how men speak to women and how we shame…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-brown/we-ve-got-to-change-the-language-of-how-women-speak-to-women-and-how/)

[Hannah Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-brown/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1c7/hannah-brown-6534_change_we-ve-got-to-change-the-language-of-how_1763761.jpg)

> [“The symbolic evidence of women’s invisibility in the human race is most clear perhaps in her suppression, her camouflage, her negation even…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-d-chittister/the-symbolic-evidence-of-women-s-invisibility-in-the-human-race-is/)

[Joan D. Chittister](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-d-chittister/)

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