“You must have also observed the masculine bias in the English language itself, in which women—literally, 'not men'—are daily confronted with the terror, unknowable to men, of concepts which they can imagine, but which an inherently patriarchal language does not allow them to express.” LanguageFeminismDexter PalmerThe Dream Of Perpetual MotionFeminist Theory Book:The Dream of Perpetual Motion Source: The Dream of Perpetual Motion
“It is time to put down the pen; time to clear the throat. Speaking is a different thing altogether from writing. The spoken word has different properties, and different powers. If I have learned anything from writing down my own tale, it is this.” WritingLanguageWordsWriterSpeakingSpoken WordDexter PalmerThe Dream Of Perpetual MotionNarrator Book:The Dream of Perpetual Motion Source: The Dream of Perpetual Motion
“I still have enough faith in language to believe that if I place enough words next to each other on the page, they will start to speak with sounds of their own.” WritingLanguageEnglishDexter PalmerThe Written WordDream Of Perpetual Motion Book:The Dream of Perpetual Motion Source: The Dream of Perpetual Motion