Dale Spender Quotes

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

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

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

When I learnt, however, that in 1911 there had been twenty-one regular feminist periodicals in Britain, that there was a feminist book shop, a woman's press, and a woman's bank run by and for women, I could no longer accept that the reason I knew almost nothing about women of the past was because there were so few of them, and they had done so little.

I know there is no danger that I will ever forget that people construct their own reality, that human beings are not led to the same version of events and of the world by the same physical evidence.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Sexual harassment is becoming the modus operandi of the new world (on-line) ... It is the means by which some males are conquering and claiming the new territory as their own.

Language helps form the limits of our reality.

Men have their cake and get to eat it too, for while they decree themselves as representative of humanity, women who argue that men are not, are simply showing how little they know! And when men's standards are defined as human standards, then women who assert that women are different, demonstrate how 'inhuman' they are. It is a real 'Catch 22.

Feminism has fought no wars ... killed no opponents ... set up no concentration camps ... starved no enemies ... practiced no cruelty. Its battles have been for education, for the vote, for better working conditions, for safety in the streets ... for reforms in the law.