Dr Roger Sperry's revolutionary work in neurobiology, which won him the 1981 Nobel Prize, found that the male child in his "mother's womb between 16th and 24th week of development undergoes a chemical bath at the brain stem, the Corpus Colussum," causing separation of the Corpus Colussum and partial brain damage (qtd. in Godzich 11-12).  This God-designed and biological factor dictates why males are more single-dimensional in thought, speech, and action--at any given time--and why they speak, averagely, 20-25,000 words per day, in contrast to why females are more multidimensional in thought, speech, and action--at any given time--and why they speak, averagely, 70,000 words per day.  Additionally, these male-female differences inform the rationale behind women being more relational--emotion and logic--and men being more logical (Godzich 10-12).  Such knowledge of basic male-female differences has rescued me from inferiority complex and false/hypocritical male pride, especially when my four-year old daughter asked me to read stories to her while driving, on the Dan Ryan Expressway in Chicago City, as Aunt Liz has often done.  Conversely, the lack of such knowledge has been the source of problematized male-female competition, fight, and division.  The far-reaching implications of male-female linguistic differences have motivated the intention of this paper to investigate Hurston's and Rhys' use of wit and feminist humor through language as Janie's and Antoinette's counteraction and resistance, respectively, to major patriarchal forms of marital enslavement from  Joe Starks and Edward Rochester, respectively.  The silenced and marginalized females have to decenter males' perspectives of women's role --place, name, wealth, and power--in order to discover and define themselves and their voices.  In so doing, these authors have empowered their female heroines with wit that problematizes males' attempts of rebuttal, thus creating feminist humor through language the artistic beauty of their works.