Discourse/feminism

Famous quotes containing the words discourse and/or feminism:

“The true mirror of our discourse is the course of our lives.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

“One of the reasons for the failure of feminism to dislodge deeply held perceptions of male and female behaviour was its insistence that women were victims, and men powerful patriarchs, which made a travesty of ordinary people’s experience of the mutual interdependence of men and women.”
—Rosalind Coward (b. 1953)