Gender/language

Famous quotes containing the words gender and/or language:

    “... lynching was ... a woman’s issue: it had as much to do with ideas of gender as it had with race.”
    —Paula Giddings (b. 1948)

    “The language I have learnt these forty years,
    My native English, now I must forgo,
    And now my tongue’s use is to me no more
    Than an unstringèd viol or a harp.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)