Chapter two Entitled Learning By Listening is starting to describe a women with an other layer of self confidence.  The silent women is more compliant and trusts the thoughts of others to show them what to do or what is right.  The women who learns by listening is also silent outside but has their own thoughts on the inside.  The author describes the women who goes to college and listens during lecture but rarely speaks.  They have empowered themselves  by studying their books and life experiences.  But they enjoy listening others discuss topics especially if the discussion is rich and is in agreement with what they know and understand.  I feel a little like that person, I feel an intrinsic sense of accomplishment or achievement when others are discussing in a lecture thoughts that I agree with or have already passed my mind.  Unfortunately these women aren't as empowered as they feel when they don't contribute to the conversation.  In the book, these women respect authority as prime knowledge givers and they are there to receive it but not manipulate that word.  There is a form of teaching were the teacher is the oppressor who holds the golden apple and the oppressed the student must receive it gratefully.  They are to now no more or less on the subject Unfortunately even though these women are smart inside their head they aren't empowered because they aren't thinking for themselves and they aren't seeking resources for knowledge themselves.  Even though I see myself here I am not completely that person because I do speak and seek unlike my silent ladies found in this chapter.  I'll be interested to see where I might fit into this story.  Each new chapter seems to describe a women with a new layer of knowledge and empowerment.  The first was somewhat demensionless and overly reliant on others to create their knowledge. The listeners know more but still rely on others  to give them the answers.  They will take that answer as gospel and wont consider the potential in addressing alternatives or they wont question or maniplulate what they know.  I wonder if each chapter will describe another women with even one more layer of knowledge and empowerment  than that of the women described before them.  Co these layers coincide with age or maturity? Might I reach the top layer of empowerment at old age or will I just fit into a description in one of these chapters?  Can I break through to the next chapter?  I don't want to go off to far on a tangent because my perspective on how the book might go might be wrong or maybe not.  Let's see!