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.

Language helps form the limits of our reality.

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

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

Have you noticed that all the news, statistics, strategies about unemployment are provided by those who are employed? As soon as you are unemployed you cease to exist.

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.