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

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.

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

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

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

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

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