“The most powerful women in Sachaka and all you do is waste time gossiping and matchmaking”
“You know how gossip is. It's the toxic waste of small town”
“For their part, the savage men appear to spend an inordinate amount of time lounging around their lodges, smoking and gossiping among themselves...so that it occurs to me that perhaps our cultures are not so different after all: the women do all the work while the men do all the talking.”
“You have grown abominably lazy, and you like gossip, and waste time on frivolous things, you are contented to be petted and admired by silly people, instead of being loved and respected by wise ones.”
“I get accused all the time of having a bigmouth. But if you ask me, guys gossip way more than girls do.”
“To a philosopher all news is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.”