When I learnt, however, that in 1911 there had been twenty-one regular feminist periodicals in Britain, that there … - Dale Spender

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Dale Spender

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.

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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.

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Language helps form the limits of our reality.

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The talkativeness of women has been gauged in comparison not with men but with silence. Women have not been judged on the grounds of whether they talk more than men, but of whether they talk more than silent women.

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

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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.

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