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

Paradoxically, the most constructive thing women can do is to write, for in the act of writing we deny our muteness and begin to eliminate some of the difficulties that have been put upon us.

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

Well into the 19th century there were pronouncements from just about every branch of science and medicine that reading, writing, and thinking were dangerous for women. Articles in the Lancet declared that women's brains would burst and their uteruses atrophy if they engaged in any form of rigorous thinking. The famous physician J.D. Kellogg insisted that novel reading was the greatest cause of uterine disease among young women and urged parents to protect their daughters from the dreaded consequences of print.

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

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

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