“It is simply learning a new language, but by the time you are through, the content of what you can talk about is monumentally different, as is the perspective from which you speak.
(…) the better I got at engaging in this discourse, the more impossible it became for me to express my own ideas, my own values. (…)
(…) learning the language is a transformative, rather than an additive, process. When you choose to learn it you enter a new mode of thinking (…).
Carol Cohn – Sex and Death in the Rational World of Defense Intellectuals, Signs, Vol. 12, No. 4, Within and Without: Women, Gender, and Theory. (Summer, 1987), pp. 687-718.
Writer Between Worlds 