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 their cake and get to eat it too, for while they decree themselves as representative of humanity, women who argue that men are not, are simply showing how little they know! And when men's standards are defined as human standards, then women who assert that women are different, demonstrate how 'inhuman' they are. It is a real 'Catch 22.

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

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.

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.

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