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Suzette Haden Elgin _ Native Tongue
True, everything they'd done so far had failed. But they had learned things! What had happened to the idea of knowledge for the sake of knowledge? Truth for the sake of truth?
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Suzette Haden Elgin _ Native Tongue
They are encumbered with secret pregnancies that never come to term. There are no terms, you don't see. They drag their swollen brains about with them everywhere; hidden in pleats and drapes and cunning pouches; and the unbearable keep kicking, kicking under the dura mater. It is no bloody wonder they have headaches. Hold them to your ear, lumpy as they are, and pale; that roar you hear is the surge of the damned unspeakable being kept back. Stone will not dilate will not stretch will not tear- it shivers. Cleaves. Moves uneasily. At its core the burgundy lava simmers, making room. There are volcanoes at the bottom of the sea. Those pretty green things swaying are their false hair. Deliver us? Ram inward the forceps of the patriarchal paradigm and your infernal medicine and bring forth the ancient offspring with their missing mouths? I think not. Not bloody likely. {20th
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Suzette Haden Elgin _ Native Tongue
There was no end to the inventiveness of men when their goal was to prove their mastery. It
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Suzette Haden Elgin _ Native Tongue
There's got to be something you can do with them, or they will literally drive you crazy. Women out of control are a curse-and if you don't put a stop to it, you'll regret it bitterly later on.
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Suzette Haden Elgin _ Native Tongue
Women are valued to the degree that they serve the needs of men.
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Suzette Haden Elgin _ Native Tongue
The language we use to describe and operate in the world affects the way we understand the world, our place in it, and our interactions with one another. Changing our language changes our world. This
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Suzette Haden Elgin _ The Grand Jubilee
It was her favorite cup, emerald-green china with a rim of silver, and sturdy enough to drink from half awake without worrying that she'd crush it, the last unbroken one of a set used for company meals when she was still in Granny School. She despised the cups her mother and grandmother chose to start their days with, delicate white porcelain with the Brightwater Crest on the side, big enough to hold maybe three good swallows, and so frail they felt like eggshells in your hand. She could face those later in the day if need be, but not before breakfast, and at no time did she admire them.
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Suzette Haden Elgin _ Twelve Fair Kingdoms
Confederation Day every blessed year on December 12.
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Suzette Haden Elgin _ Twelve Fair Kingdoms
A symbol is best answered by a symbol. Not by a . . . meat cleaver.
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Suzette Haden Elgin _ Native Tongue
No longer were there "doctors" of anthropology and physics and literature to offend the real doctors and confuse the public; they had put a stop to that, as they had put a stop to so many things that were unseemly and inappropriate.
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Suzette Haden Elgin _ Native Tongue
He stayed carefully away from the profs, he ran the data they gave him without allowing any of it to register in his memory-that's what you have computers for, so you don't have to put stuff in your own memory-and that was all he did.
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Suzette Haden Elgin _ Native Tongue
But she would learn. Every woman was a prisoner for life; it was not some burden that she bore uniquely. She would have all the company she could ever need. *
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