Language Quote by Maria Teresa Horta

It is by discourse that men associate, and words are imposed according to the apprehension of the vulgar. And therefore the ill and unfit…

— Francis Bacon

Beware of men who use words that relate pejoratively to females when describing the 'other side.

— Jane Fonda

You have to have funny faces and words, you can't just have words. It is a powerful thing, and I think that's why it's…

— Ellen DeGeneres

Many women, particularly young women, have claimed the right to use the most explicit sex terms, including extremely vulgar ones, in public as well…

— Margaret Mead

I think as women and men become more conscious, the terms "woman/man" begin to lose meaning.

— Elizabeth Lesser

Women are not for using. Women are for loving.

— Kevin Leman

“Do those words matter? Of course they do, because they underpin an idiom that acts to remove the authority, the force, even the humour…

— Mary Beard

Sexuality is part of being a woman, it's part of what empowers us when we're smart enough to know how to use it.

— Halle Berry

The world is grown so full of dissimulation and compliment, that men's words are hardly any signification of their thoughts.

— Richard Steele

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

For all kinds of reasons, it is more difficult to track women's lives. Women's words have simply been considered less important, so they have…

— Adele Logan Alexander

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