
Top 27 Dale Spender Quotes
#2. Men who teach only men are called scholars. Women who teach only women are called political agitators.
Dale Spender
#3. Every company's greatest assets are its customers, because without customers there is no company.
Michael LeBoeuf
#4. Men have been in charge of according value to literature, and ... they have found the contributions of their own sex immeasurably superior.
Dale Spender
#5. 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.
Dale Spender
#6. Our little son is surely with the Lord God now, singing with the angels.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#7. If I don't already know a song's chord progression, I'll stop writing and try to figure it out. I can occasionally listen to unstructured, amelodic ambient music, but I prefer no music. I don't need silence - I can write just about anywhere - but music is a major distraction.
F. Paul Wilson
#8. 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 ...
Dale Spender
#9. 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.
Dale Spender
#10. I consider The O.C. as my college. It was four years and I made friends who I'll have forever.
Adam Brody
#11. 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.
Dale Spender
#12. There is a real split today between those who push the button and those who do the dying.
Dale Spender
#13. Oh, and in case you don't recognize me, since apparently waitressing here requires such a transformation, I'll be the hot one doing math in her head." I lean toward Ryder, my lips close to his ear. "No push-up bra necessary.
Eve Jagger
#14. When women are supposed to be quiet, a talkative woman is a woman who talks at all.
Dale Spender
#15. 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 ...
Dale Spender
#16. Language is not neutral. It is not merely a vehicle which carries ideas. It is itself a shaper of ideas.
Dale Spender
#17. For centuries women have been saying many of the things we are saying today and which we have often thought of as new ...
Dale Spender
#18. Openly questioning the way the world works and challenging the power of the powerful is not an activity customarily rewarded.
Dale Spender
#19. Every medium - oral, written, print, and now electronic - has its own associated thought patterns and mind sets.
Dale Spender
#20. 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.
Dale Spender
#21. but because she had at once classed him in that catalogue of bipeds whom Plato endeavors to withdraw from the appellation of men, and whom Diogenes designated as animals upon two legs without feathers. Unfortunately,
Alexandre Dumas
#22. Antiliberals endlessly berate their enemies for "instrumental thinking." But they do not clearly explain the evil of producing better goods at a lower cost.
Stephen Holmes
#23. 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.
Dale Spender
#24. Language helps form the limits of our reality.
Dale Spender
#25. What has been termed 'correct' English is nothing other than the blatant legitimation of the white middle-class code.
Dale Spender
#26. 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.
Dale Spender
#27. For centuries there has been a long and honorable tradition of women who have resisted and protested against men and their power.
Dale Spender
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