Dale Spender Quotes
- Language helps form the limits of our reality.
- 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…
- ... for centuries there has been a long and honorable tradition of women who have resisted and protested against men and their power.
- When women are supposed to be quiet, a talkative woman is a woman who talks at all.
- 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…
- The talkativeness of women has been gauged in comparison not with men but with silence. Women have not been judged on the grounds of whether…
- Openly questioning the way the world works and challenging the power of the powerful is not an activity customarily rewarded.
- Language is not neutral. It is not merely a vehicle which carries ideas. It is itself a shaper of ideas.
- Womens humor is part of the revolution.