Language and Women

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'If a woman is swept off a ship into the water, the cry is "Man overboard!" If she is killed by a hit and run driver, the charge is manslaughter." If she is injured on the job, the coverage is "Workmen's compensation." But if she arrives at a threshold marked "Men only," she knows the admonition is not intended to bar animals or plants or inanimate objects. It is meant for her'; as quoted by …

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…there own daily affairs, having no idea that their privileges have resulted from generations of women coming together in deliberant meetings, petition drives, lobbying, public speaking, and nonviolent resistance to make a better world; Freedom has not spontaneously fallen into a woman's lap!. There could be no greater thing a female can do than to recognize her own gender, support it, embrace her rights and to be grateful and even proud to be a woman.