“What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open.” 

- Muriel Rukeyser

Gossip is Power

Ronald de Sousa, a Canadian philosopher, writes in his chapter, In Praise of Gossip: Indiscretion as a Saintly Virtue: “Gossip has been the object of much malicious talk. But then, so have all forms of power—and gossip is power” (Goodman & Ben-Ze-Ev, 25).