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“For centuries women have been saying many of the things we are saying today and which we have often thought of as new.”

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Dale Spender

Dale Spender is a British writer born on September 22, 1943. His works cover a range of fields including literary criticism, gender studies, and cultural theory, known for his unique perspective and profound insights. more

“conventional English usage, including the generic use of masculine-gender words, often obscures the actions, the contributions, and sometimes the very presence of women. Turning our backs on that insight is an option, of course, but it is an option like teaching children that the world is flat.”

World Children Sometimes Use Action Courses Teaching Including Insight Gender Contribution Flats Conventional Masculine Usage Teaching Children Generic World Is Flat

Book:The Handbook of Nonsexist Writing

Source: The Handbook of Nonsexist Writing

“The Canadian dialect of English . . . seems roughly to be the result of applying British syntax to an American vocabulary.”

Seems Results British Vocabulary Dialect Syntax

Author:Lister Sinclair

“The devil makes a great deal of the religion we see.”

Religion Deals Devil

Book:Chronicles of the Schönberg-Cotta Family

Source: Chronicles of the Schönberg-Cotta Family

“The devil never seems so busy as where the saints are, which is another reason why I feel how difficult it would be to be religious.”

Feels Reason Seems Would Be Difficult Religious Devil Busy Saint Reason Why

Book:Chronicles of the Schönberg-Cotta Family

Source: Chronicles of the Schönberg-Cotta Family

“great inventors and discoverers seem to have made their discoveries and inventions as it were by the way, in the course of their everyday life.”

Way Made Seems Courses Discovery Innovation Everyday Invention Everyday Life Inventor Discovery And Invention Great Inventors

Book:Chronicles of the Schönberg-Cotta Family

Source: Chronicles of the Schönberg-Cotta Family

“But the way to wealth through the quill seems long.”

Way Long Seems Wealth Quills

Book:Chronicles of the Schönberg-Cotta Family

Source: Chronicles of the Schönberg-Cotta Family

“Women rely on friends. ... That's where we draw sustenance and find safety. We can count on our women friends when we need a good laugh or a good cry.”

Needs Laughing Cry Draws Safety Rely Sustenance Good Laugh

Book:We Are Our Mothers' Daughters

Source: We Are Our Mothers' Daughters

“As the moon, though darkened with spots, gives us a much greater light than the stars that sewn all-luminous, so do the Scriptures afford more light than the brightest human authors. In them the ignorant may learn all requisite knowledge, and the most knowing may learn to discern their ignorance.”

Giving Humans May Light Stars Knowing Greater Ignorance Moon Bible Scripture Ignorant Spots Luminous

Author:Robert Boyle

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