There is a real split today between those who push the button and those who do the dying.
Dale SpenderMen who teach only men are called scholars. Women who teach only women are called political agitators.
Dale SpenderThis 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 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 Spender