Gloria Steinem Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• Battered women is a phrase that uncovered major, long-hidden violence. It helps us to face the fact that, statistically speaking, the most dangerous place for a woman is in her own home, not in the streets.

  Gloria Steinem

  Home, Long, Faces

  Gloria Steinem (1986). “Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions”, New Amer Library

• The original languages didn't even have he and she. They didn't have concepts of masculine and feminine. People were people. And the whole idea was that we were in a circle together, not in a hierarchy together.

  Gloria Steinem

  Masculine And Feminine, Circles, Ideas

  Source: www.esquire.com

• The old languages - at least the ones I know - don't have gender. They don't have gendered pronouns. There's no "he" and "she." A human being is a human being.

  Gloria Steinem

  Language, Gender, Pronouns

  Source: www.elle.com

• Language can't solve everything, of course, but it does carry our dreams and our ideas.

  Gloria Steinem

  Dream, Ideas, Doe

  Source: www.elle.com

• anything being perceived as being superior takes the noun. And everything that isn't, that's judged to be inferior, requires an adjective. So there are black novelists and novelists. There are women physicians and physicians. Male nurses and nurses.

  Gloria Steinem

  Nurse, Racism, Black

• Whoever has power takes over the noun - and the norm - while the less powerful get an adjective.

  Gloria Steinem

  Powerful, Adjectives, Nouns

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