Class Quote by Dale Spender

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“what has been termed 'correct' English is nothing other than the blatant legitimation of the white middle-class code.”

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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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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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