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.
There is a real split today between those who push the button and those who do the dying.
... for centuries there has been a long and honorable tradition of women who have resisted and protested against men and their power.
Language helps form the limits of our reality.
Language is not neutral. It is not merely a vehicle which carries ideas. It is itself a shaper of ideas.
Have you noticed that all the news statistics strategies about unemployment are provided by those who are employed? As soon as you are unemployed you cease to exist ...
for centuries women have been saying many of the things we are saying today and which we have often thought of as new ...
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.
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.
This monopoly over language is one of the means by which males have ensured their own primacy and consequently have ensured the invisibility or 'other' nature of females ...
Paradoxically the most constructive thing women can dois to write for in the act of writing we deny our mutedness and beginto eliminate some of the difficulties that have been put upon us.
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.
When women are supposed to be quiet a talkative woman is a woman who talks at all.
Men who teach only men are called scholars. Women who teach only women are called political agitators.