Language Quote by Andrea Dworkin

“Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it. Thought, experienced primarily as language, is permeated by…

— Andrea Dworkin

Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

This monopoly over language is one of the means by which males have ensured their own primacy, and consequently have ensured the invisibility or…

— Dale Spender

It serves the patriarchy to consolidate male power.

— Emma D'Arcy

“We have no language that is free of the power dualisms of domination.”

— Beverly Harrison

Patriarchy is having the power to name.

— Kate Zambreno

We are in the process of making the English language gender-neutral, and manliness, the quality of one gender, or rather, of one sex, seems…

— Harvey Mansfield

At the end of the day, the sovereignty of maleness is an illusion. In essence and in origin, we are all entirely female.

— Anohni

Language conveys a certain power. It is one of the instruments of domination. It is carefully guarded by the superior people because it is…

— Sheila Rowbotham

Women are the simple, and poets the superior, artisans of language... the intervention of grammarians is almost always bad.

— Remy de Gourmont

Men's language is as their lives.

— Seneca the Younger

So it is naturally with the male and the female; the one is superior, the other inferior; the one governs, the other is governed;…

— Aristotle