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.

... for centuries there has been a long and honorable tradition of women who have resisted and protested against men and their power.

When I learnt, however, that in 1911 there had been twenty-one regular feminist periodicals in Britain, that there was a feminist book shop, a woman's press, and a woman's bank run by and for women, I could no longer accept that the reason I knew almost nothing about women of the past was because there were so few of them, and they had done so little.

When women are supposed to be quiet, a talkative woman is a woman who talks at all.

Every medium - oral, written, print, and now electronic - has its own associated thought patterns and mind sets.

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

There is a real split today between those who push the button and those who do the dying.