Circles Quote by Gloria Steinem

The old languages - at least the ones I know - don't have gender. They don't have gendered pronouns. There's no "he" and "she."…

— Gloria Steinem

We are literally linked in a circle, including with nature, as well as with other human beings. Old societies didn't have and still don't…

— Gloria Steinem

Some feminist critics debate whether we take our meaning and sense of self from language and in that process become phallocentric ourselves, or if…

— Paula Gunn Allen

Why does everyone cling to the masculine imagery and pronouns even though they are a mere linguistic device that has never meant that God…

— Carol P. Christ

In most Native languages, most Indigenous languages, Blackfeet included, there are no gendered pronouns. There is no he/she, there's only they.

— Lily Gladstone

To create a language all of a piece which would be a women's language, that I find quite insane. There does not exist a…

— Simone de Beauvoir

“Does it distress you, reader, how I remind you of their sexes in each sentence? ‘Hers’ and ‘his’? Does it make you see them…

— Ada Palmer

One argument is that men and women speak two different languages.

— Kumar Anupam

“I mean, if Native languages have no gender, then why should we? And why, for that matter, should God?”

— Tomson Highway

We speak of the masculine and the feminine, but they are the wrong labels. It is really more a matter of poetry versus intellectualization.

— Anais Nin

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

— Judy Chicago