Female Quote by Dale Spender

In many patriarchies, language, as well as cultural tradition, reserve the human condition for the male. With the Indo-European languages this is a nearly…

— Kate Millett

Again, the male is by nature superior, and the female inferior; and the one rules, and the other is ruled; this principle, of necessity,…

— Aristotle

When gender comes down upon us, male or female, it comes as a restriction.

— Gloria Steinem

Sexist grammar burns into the brains of little girls and young women a message that the male is the norm, the standard, the central…

— Adrienne Rich

So women are at the beginning of building a language, and not all women are conscious of it.

— Judy Chicago

Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.

— Simone de Beauvoir

“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

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

It is one thing to say, "Some men shall rule," quite another to declare, "All men shall rule," and that in virtue of the…

— Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi

“Like all dominant groups, men seek to promote an image of their subordinate’s nature that contributes to the preservation of the status quo. For…

— Anonymous

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