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

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

Feminism has fought no wars ... killed no opponents ... set up no concentration camps ... starved no enemies ... practiced no cruelty. Its battles have been for education, for the vote, for better working conditions, for safety in the streets ... for reforms in the law.

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

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

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.

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.