Dale Spender Quotes

Language is not neutral. It is not merely a vehicle which carries ideas. It is itself a shaper of ideas.

Men who teach only men are called scholars. Women who teach only women are called political agitators.

For centuries women have been saying many of the things we are saying today and which we have often thought of as new ...

Every medium - oral, written, print, and now electronic - has its own associated thought patterns and mind sets.

What has been termed 'correct' English is nothing other than the blatant legitimation of the white middle-class code.

Language helps form the limits of our reality.

There is a real split today between those who push the button and those who do the dying.

It is partly the absence of recorded history which sends women now to the lives of women past for the detailed documentation of their daily lives.

For centuries there has been a long and honorable tradition of women who have resisted and protested against men and their power.

Openly questioning the way the world works and challenging the power of the powerful is not an activity customarily rewarded.

Men have been in charge of according value to literature, and ... they have found the contributions of their own sex immeasurably superior.

When women are supposed to be quiet, a talkative woman is a woman who talks at all.