“I never much understood the point of the world of men. How they fed off each other. How they motivated themselves. I mean, I got the purpose, but I navigated that world the way an astronaut would an alien landscape. Trying not to breathe the same air. Which was impossible, of course.”
Source: Hummingbird Salamander
“I began to envision myself differently, to experience The Feminine not as wounded, but as something beautiful, exuberant, wise and unspeakably valuable.”
Source: The Dance of the Dissident Daughter: A Woman's Journey from Christian Tradition to the Sacred Feminine
“The women over there, heads bent together, were obviously gossiping. The men over there, heads bent together, were obviously discussing something they thought was very important and that they had great influence over, but which, of course, was also just gossip.”
Source: Part of Your World
“Third-eye magic? Only man need a third eye. Woman fine with two, sometimes one.”
Source: Moon Witch, Spider King
“That she can reform a rake," said Poirot, "has always been one of women's dearest illusions!”
Source: The Labours of Hercules
“A Magdalene Laundry is not a building. It is a threat.”
Source: Other Words for Smoke
“Women may be bad, but they are not so bad as men in these things!”
Source: Tess of the D’Urbervilles
“X was not a willing housewife. X remained unmoved by squalling infants, would not wear skirts that swaddled the stride, had no desire to be pursued by the hot breath of young men, failed to enjoy domestic chores, and possessed none of the decorous modesty of maidenhood.”
Source: After Sappho
“What about you, Beans?” Ambrose asked with a smirk.
“Me? Oh, I know all about the pleasure of a woman's body,” Beans continued on in accented English, his eyebrows waggling.
“The army, Beans. The army. What about it?”
“Sure. Hell, yeah. Whatever.”
Source: Making Faces
“The Northern women who worked for abolition were generally not free of racial prejudice - many female abolition societies refused to allow black members.”
Source: America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines