Building Quote by Judy Chicago

The great arbiters of language are the women who speak it in the presence of children... What the women pass on to the next…

— Charlton Laird

We must learn to speak the language women speak when there is no one there to correct us.

— Helene Cixous

Women and men communicate differently, often on entirely different planes. But just as men have failed us, we have failed them. It has been…

— Norah Vincent

Women are the simple, and poets the superior, artisans of language... the intervention of grammarians is almost always bad.

— Remy de Gourmont

Women are storytellers, they are communicators. They'll go and sit around a table and talk about their first date, their first smoke, their first…

— Anita Roddick

Public speaking is done in the public tongue, the national or tribal language; and the language of our tribe is the men's language. Of…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

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

These poor women in academia have to talk this silly language that nobody can understand in order to be accepted, they think.

— Gloria Steinem

You can't address yourself to women by speaking a language which no average woman will understand. In my opinion, it's wrong.

— Simone de Beauvoir

All women speak two languages: the language of men and the language of silent suffering. Some women speak a third, the language of queens.

— Mohja Kahf

We are not taught to think decently on sex subjects, and consequently we have no language for them except indecent language.

— George Bernard Shaw

Women have a greater verbal capacity.

— Geoffrey S. Fletcher