what has been termed 'correct' English is nothing other than the blatant legitimation of the white middle-class code.
Dale SpenderWhen 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.
Dale SpenderMen who teach only men are called scholars. Women who teach only women are called political agitators.
Dale SpenderParadoxically, the most constructive thing women can do is to write, for in the act of writing we deny our muteness and begin to eliminate some of the difficulties that have been put upon us.
Dale Spender