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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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