Emotion Quote by Jeffrey Eugenides

It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in a language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.

— Thomas Hardy

Patriarchy is so ingrained in our psyche, that most us propagate it in small ways even without realizing.

— Shoojit Sircar

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

— Judy Chicago

Men's language is as their lives.

— Seneca the Younger

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

Languages proclaim that woman is half of man, and by parity of reasoning, man is half of woman.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“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

Woman, then, stands in patriarchal culture as a signifier for the male other, bound by a symbolic order in which man can live out…

— Laura Mulvey

No language can express the power, and beauty, and heroism, and majesty of a mother's love. It shrinks not where man cowers, and grows…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Whether consciously or not, sexist God language undermines the human equality of women made in the divine image and likeness.

— Elizabeth A. Johnson

Language forces us to perceive the world as man presents it to us.

— Julia Penelope

If the writer is a woman, feminist or not, it will give the language something that it would not have if it had been…

— Simone de Beauvoir