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

I know there is no danger that I will ever forget that people construct their own reality, that human beings are not led to the same version of events and of the world by the same physical evidence.

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

It is partly the absence of recorded history which sends women now to the lives of women past for the detailed documentation of their daily lives.

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

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.

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.