Do Girls Talk More Than Boys?

When I was in high school, I took a class at the University of Pittsburgh. We read Grimm's fairy tales because there wasn't a lot of scholarship on specifically Russian fairy tales. And what they found is that the least talkative character so they are the heroines. So Cinderella will not say I am afraid she will cry out,. The book the story does not actually report her speech. Most talkative characters are the evil stepmother and the evil witches.

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