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.

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

what has been termed 'correct' English is nothing other than the blatant legitimation of the white middle-class code.

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

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

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