Erin’s Reviews > Woman's Inhumanity to Woman > Status Update

"To some extent all-female groups resemble all-female primate groups. While dyads dominate, cliques also dominate, hierarchies also exist, as do sudden takeovers, fights, and ejections. Belonging, interacting, and affiliating are more important than succeeding or being right."

"[Gossip is] the most powerful way in which utterly subordinated women enforce their own subordination and also improve their own positions in the all-female hierarchy of subordinated women."