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Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling.

Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling.
– Jeffrey Eugenides

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  3. Music is the language of the heart, the language of the soul, the language of nature and the language of the universe. – Debasish Mridha
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  22. Micro: Letters create words. Words create language. Language, we are told, permits knowledge & expression. Language is what we are. Are we jailed? – Anthony North
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  24. Since men are not equals in white supremacist, capitalist, patriarchal class structure, which men do women want to be equal to? – bell hooks
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