men have their cake and get to eat it too, for while they decree themselves as representative of humanity, women who argue that men are not, are simply showing how little they know! And when men's standards are defined as human standards, then women who assert that women are different, demonstrate how 'inhuman' they are. It is a real 'Catch 22.
Dale SpenderMen who teach only men are called scholars. Women who teach only women are called political agitators.
Dale SpenderIt 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 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... for centuries there has been a long and honorable tradition of women who have resisted and protested against men and their power.
Dale Spender