" In a society where men dominate, where women are just another one of all the planet's resources which are available to them, it is predictable that women should be required to hand over their intellectual valuables and that these should go to replenish and enrich the reputations of men. How else could male supremacy be maintained? "

― Dale Spender , The Writing or the Sex?, Or, Why You Don't Have to Read Women's Writing to Know It's No Good