Century Quote by Dale Spender

“... for centuries there has been a long and honorable tradition of women who have resisted and protested against men and their power.” quote by Dale Spender — Download Open image

“... for centuries there has been a long and honorable tradition of women who have resisted and protested against men and their power.”

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“Feminism has fought no wars. It has killed no opponents. It has set up no concentration camps, starved no enemies, practiced no cruelties. Its…

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Feminism has fought no wars. It has killed no opponents. It has set up no concentration camps, starved no enemies, practiced no cruelties. Its battles have been for education, for the vote, for better working conditions. for safety on the streets¦ for child care, for social welfare... for rape crisis centers, womens refuges, reforms in the law. If someone says…

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men have been in charge of according value to literature, and ... they have found the contributions of their own sex immeasurably superior.

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Womens humor is part of the revolution.

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The talkativeness of women has been gauged in comparison not with men but with silence. Women have not been judged on the grounds of…

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Paradoxically, the most constructive thing women can do is to write, for in the act of writing we deny our muteness and begin to…

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

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For centuries women have been saying many of the things we are saying today and which we have often thought of as new.

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men have their cake and get to eat it too, for while they decree themselves as representative of humanity, women who argue that men…

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Feminism has fought no wars ... killed no opponents ... set up no concentration camps ... starved no enemies ... practiced no cruelty. Its…

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There is a real split today between those who push the button and those who do the dying.

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

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While husbands and lovers in the stories are of all kinds, ranging from sympathetic to disgusting, women are invariably deceivers: inconstant, unscrupulous, quarrelsome, querulous,…

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