“I had never thought about what it might mean to be deaf, to be deprived of language, or to have a remarkable language (and community and culture) of one’s own. Up to this point, I had mostly thought and written about the problems of individuals–here I was to encounter an entire community.” MeanProblemMightCultureIndividualLanguageCommunityWrittenEncountersRemarkableDeafDeprived Author:Oliver Sacks
“Women have been charged with deviousness and duplicity since the dawn of civilization so they have never been able to pretend that their masks were anything but masks. It is a slender case but perhaps it does mean that women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism.” MenMeanDoeHas BeensRealitySeemsAbleCasesCivilizationContactDawnMaskIdealismDeprivedSlenderRecompenseDuplicityDeviousness Book:the female eunuch Source: the female eunuch