Feminism has fought no wars ... killed no opponents ... set up no concentration camps ... starved no enemies ... practiced no cruelty. Its battles have been for education, for the vote, for better working conditions, for safety in the streets ... for reforms in the law.

Language helps form the limits of our reality.

The talkativeness of women has been gauged in comparison not with men but with silence. Women have not been judged on the grounds of whether they talk more than men, but of whether they talk more than silent women.

For centuries women have been saying many of the things we are saying today and which we have often thought of as new.

men have been in charge of according value to literature, and ... they have found the contributions of their own sex immeasurably superior.

Sexual harassment is becoming the modus operandi of the new world (on-line)... It is the means by which some males are conquering and claiming the new territory as their own.

Men who teach only men are called scholars. Women who teach only women are called political agitators.