Shut up and sit down.
These five words are now part of the lore of what has become known as the Aware Saga.
And they obviously still resonate with Ms Margaret Thomas, who wore a T-shirt with the retort Don t tell me to shut up and sit down to a recent interview with The New Paper.
The harsh command had been directed at Ms Thomas, a founding member of the Association of Women for Action and Research and its current president, during a May 2009 extraordinary general meeting (EGM) where two factions waged a battle for the very soul of the gender equality group.