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.

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

I know there is no danger that I will ever forget that people construct their own reality, that human beings are not led to the same version of events and of the world by the same physical evidence.

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

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

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.

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