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That liberty is a great thing we may know from our own feelings, and we may likewise judge so from the conduct of the white-people, in the late war.
Robin Lakoff
![Robin Lakoff](/img/nopic_profile.png)
Born: May 24, 1942 (age 82)
Bio: Robin Tolmach Lakoff is a professor of linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. Her 1975 book Language and Woman's Place is often credited with establishing language and gender as an object of study in linguistics and other disciplines.
Known for:
- Language and Woman's Place (1972)
- The Language War (2000)
- Talking power (1964)