Language both reflects and shapes society. Culture shapes language and then language shapes culture. Little wonder that the words we use to talk to each other, and about each other, are the most important words in our language: they tell us who I am, they tell us who you are, they tell us who 'they' are.

The bias-free word finder: a dictionary of nondiscriminatory language (ed. Beacon Pr, 1992) - ISBN: 9780807060032