Discourse/feminism

Famous quotes containing the words discourse and/or feminism:

    “The first duty of a lecturer—to hand you after an hour’s discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantlepiece for ever.”
    —Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)

    “I ... have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is. I only know that people call me a feminist when I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat, or a prostitute.”
    —Rebecca West (1892–1983)