“In her every small movement she was the woman of the future, a type that would swagger and curse, fall headlong, flaming into the hell of war, be as brave and tough as men, take the overflowing diarrhea of nervous frontline troops without grimacing, speak loudly and devastatingly, kick brain matter off their shoes and go unhurriedly on. When he looked at Bern, Viktor saw the future, and it was lovely and clean and as equal as things between men and women, between prole and patrician, could be.”
Source: Delicate Edible Birds and Other Stories
“I am weary with whiteness. To rule, to be civilized and chaste; you do not know what weariness it is. My woman yearns toward me in hunger, I am spent. All the world waves in darkling circles about my white uprightness, I am spent.”
Source: Holiday
“Don't work the system. Outsmart it.”
Source: Lessons in Chemistry
“I turned to my wife and said, "Damn, this country hates women."
She said, "You're only now just figuring that out?”
Source: A People's Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers
“I had never known Bonnie to talk like this. So depressed and ... gnomic? But then I remembered it was her birthday, so perhaps she was mourning the way all women of our age were supposed to mourn the precipitous vanishing of our worth, like, Whoops, time to grow a personality, which the world will also devalue!”
Source: A People's Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers
“Older ladies are good as well, you know.”
“He admires her ability to connect seemingly unrelated thoughts, but he just can’t seem to understand how she does it.”
Source: Men Are Like Waffles--Women Are Like Spaghetti
“To those waiting with bated breath for that favourite media catchphrase, the 'U' turn, I have only one thing to say. 'You turn if you want to. The lady's not for turning.”
“Daughter, daughter, daughter—the obsession with the family’s honor resting on the purity of the women.”
Source: Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance
“There's a whole lot of things you don't know about niggers. And God forbid you should! There's a whole lot of things you don't know about white girls . . about yourself, Virginia. And God forbid you should! That's what we men are here for.”
Source: Holiday