Accepting Quote by Neil Postman

If we are ever to construct a feminist movement that is not based on the premise that men and women are always at war…

— Bell Hooks

Sexist grammar burns into the brains of little girls and young women a message that the male is the norm, the standard, the central…

— Adrienne Rich

People are actually having conversations about "Is this sexist?"

— Kathleen Hanna

“it strikes me that the writers most deeply concerned with the state of literary fiction and its biases against women could do a lot…

— Foz Meadows

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

“Society was telling you that if you speak out, you're going to be labeled, like this feminist crazy person, difficult, difficult to work with…

— Rowan Blanchard

[Sexism is] behavior, policy, language, or other action of men or women which expresses the institutionalized, systematic, comprehensive, or consistent view that women are…

— Cheris Kramarae

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

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

— George Bernard Shaw

I don't think there is a need of the categorization 'woman writing'. I think in some sense writers lost their gender when they walk…

— Anita Nair

Sexist language, racist language, theistic language - all are typical of the policing languages of mastery, and cannot, do not, permit new knowledge or…

— Toni Morrison

I have no control, of course, over how I'm marketed. It's a sad thing, though, that so many people perceive literature to be gendered.…

— Maggie O'Farrell