Cheris Kramarae quotes
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“Feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings”
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“[Sexism is] behavior, policy, language, or other action of men or women which expresses the institutionalized, systematic, comprehensive, or consistent view that women are inferior.”
-- Cheris KramaraeSource : Cheris Kramarae (1992). “Amazons, Bluestockings and Crones: A Feminist Dictionary”, Pandora Press
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“Facts: Words treated as statement of actuality by those who agree with them.”
-- Cheris KramaraeSource : Cheris Kramarae (1992). “Amazons, Bluestockings and Crones: A Feminist Dictionary”, Pandora Press
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“Tell the negative committee that meets inside your head to sit down and shut up.”
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“We've dressed up in our best and are prepared to go down like gentlemen.”
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“There is a radical dualism between the empirical nature of man and its moral nature.”
Source : "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 59), 1937.
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