A Left-Handed Commencement Address Quotes

This is a man's world, so it talks a man's language. The words are all words of power. (11-12)

Well, we're already foreigners. Women as women are largely excluded from, alien to, the self-declared male norms of this society, where human beings are called Man, the only respectable god is male...

Instead of saying now that I hope you will all go forth from this ivory tower of college into the Real World and forge a triumphant career or at least help your husband to and keep our country stro...

Anyhow, commencements are usually operated under the unspoken agreement that everybody graduating is either male or ought to be. That's why we are all wearing these twelfth-century dresses that loo...

I want to thank the Mills College Class of '83 for offering me a rare chance: to speak aloud in public in the language of women. (1)