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Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it. Thought, experienced primarily as language, is permeated by the linguistic and perceptual values developed expressly to subordinate women. Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent or consequence, are with or against assertions or premises implicit in the male system, which is made credible or authentic by the power of men to name. No transcendence of the male system is possible as long as men have the power of naming... As Prometheus stole fire from the gods, so feminists will have to steal the power of naming from men, hopefully to better effect.


Andrea Dworkin


#language #men

So he was always in the town at one place or another, drinking, knocking about with the men he knew. It really wearied him. He talked to barmaids, to almost any woman, but there was that dark, strained look in his eyes, as if he were hunting something. Everything seemed so different, so unreal. There seemed no reason why people should go along the street, and houses pile up in the daylight. There seemed no reason why these things should occupy the space, instead of leaving it empty. His friends talked to him: he heard the sounds, and he answered. But why there should be the noise of speech he could not understand.


D.H. Lawrence


#drinking #isolation #language #meaninglessness #suicide

It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.


M. H. Abrams


#after #age #country #emerges #how

I think it is a mistake to identify a movie according to its language, as if movies were literature.


Jean-Jacques Annaud


#i #i think #identify #language #literature

The finest command of language is often shown by saying nothing.


Roger Babson


#finest #language #nothing #often #saying

Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.


Balthus


#another #cannot #i #know #language

The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.


T. S. Eliot


#beyond #dead #fire #language #living

Americans can pretty much sing anything, whereas foreign singers are often limited in style, language, even composer.


Marilyn Horne


#composer #even #foreign #language #limited

The change of language is a change in reality.


Stephen Mitchell


#reality #change

As you know, there are certain languages that lend themselves very easily to vocal use.


Neville Marriner


#easily #know #languages #lend #themselves






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