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

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.

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.

This monopoly over language is one of the means by which males have ensured their own primacy, and consequently have ensured the invisibility or 'other' nature of females.

Language helps form the limits of our reality.

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.