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with my face pressed to the earth I mix my tears with the earth.
“The social invisibility of women's experience is not "a failure of human communication." It is a socially arranged bias persisted in long after the information about women's experience is available (sometimes even publicly insisted upon).”
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“When the memory of one's predecessors is buried, the assumption persists that there were none and each generation of women believes itself to be faced with the burden of doing everything for the first time. And if no one ever did it before, if no woman was ever that socially sacred creature, "a great writer," why do we think we can succeed now?”
― How to Suppress Women's Writing
― How to Suppress Women's Writing
“if Moses had seen the way my friend’s face blushes when he’s drunk, and his beautiful curls and wonderful hands, he would not have written in his Torah: do not lie with a man”
― The Book of Tahkemoni: Jewish Tales from Medieval Spain
― The Book of Tahkemoni: Jewish Tales from Medieval Spain
“I think it no accident that the myth of the isolated achievement so often promotes women writers' less good work as their best work.”
― How to Suppress Women's Writing
― How to Suppress Women's Writing
“I had planned to consult with a Black colleague, but when I approached her in the hall she had a crowd of students about, all of them talking, a stack of books in one arm, a mass of student papers in the other, seven committee reports wedged in between, as well as her small daughter in a backpack, and she was looking surreptitiously at her watch. So I went on reading and taking notes.”
― How to Suppress Women's Writing
― How to Suppress Women's Writing
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