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“Why should human females become sterile in their forties, while female crocodiles continue to lay eggs into their third century?”

Should Humans Women Century Female Thirds Lays Forty Eggs Crocodiles

Author:Aldous Huxley

“To the "masculists" of both sexes, "femininity" implies all that men have built into the female image in the past few centuries: weakness, imbecility, dependence, masochism, unreliability, and a certain "babydoll" sexuality that is actually only a projection of male dreams. To the "feminist" of both sexes, femininity is synonymous with the eternal female principle, connoting strength, integrity, wisdom, justice, dependability, and a psychic power foreign and therefore dangerous to the plodding masculists of both sexes.”

“After centuries of conditioning of the female into the condition of perpetual girlishness called femininity, we cannot remember what femaleness is.”

Remember Women Conditions Century Female Perpetual Femininity Conditioning

Author:Germaine Greer

“I know historians aren't supposed to fall in love with their own theories, but I was head over heels about the notion of an entire band of female French agents, like a nineteenth-century Charlie's Angels. Only better. It made the Pink Carnation's organization look positively humdrum.”

Source: The Deception of the Emerald Ring

“I think, that in the twenty-second century, there will be more female reincarnations at female institutions. Then there'll be competition between male lama institutions and female lama institutions. It'll be a positive sort of competition.”

Thinking Century Female Twenties Institutions Competition Males Reincarnation Lama

Author:Dalai Lama

“In the nineteenth century, government agencies in Washington had, almost without exception, flatly refused to hire even one female.”

Government Century Female Agency Exception Nineteenth Century Government Agencies

Author:David Brinkley

“I immediately noticed there were far more male characters than female characters in the programs, even now, in the 21st century.”

Character Century Female Program Males 21st Century Female Characters

Author:Geena Davis

“I think one of the great joys of being a writer is you can transcend everything, even your own sex, what century you live in, and how you think. I found it quite natural to think as a male because I actually think that as a female, one often thinks in the mind of a male in terms of eroticism. You think about what the other person feels. So it's not that hard to imagine being that person.”

Thinking Feels Mind Persons Hard Joy Found Sex Term Natural Imagine Century Female Males Great Joy

Author:Rebecca Miller

“To confound the tyranny of man there should exist for a century a third sex, both male and female, and stronger than men. This new sex would prove with the lash that men as well as women are made for its pleasure; and then you would hear men protesting against the tyranny of the hermaphrodite sex and admitting that strength should not be the sole rule of right. Just why do they refuse to grant the women the independence which they would demand from the third sex?”

Men Should Wells Made Sex Pleasure Century Demand Prove Female Thirds Stronger Independence Males Refuse Tyranny Grants Sole Admitting Lashes Hermaphrodites

Author:Charles Fourier

“The sexual revolution produced cultural convulsions that were unparalleled in the 20th century. The female sex was historically sexualized and required to have orgasms for the first time. Sexual "deviants," particularly homosexuals, achieved partial emancipation.”

Firsts Sex Century Revolution First Time Female Homosexual 20th Century Emancipation Deviants Sexual Revolution

Author:Volkmar Sigusch

“Through the 13th century, paintings of Angels exhibit a predominantly masculine appearance. Over the next 300 years, their images become more delicate, gentle, and feminine, until Angels are shown as androgynous or even distinctly female.”

Years Next Century Painting Angel Female Appearance Gentle Feminine Delicate Masculine Exhibits Androgynous

Author:David Connolly

“When you see that 76 percent of teachers are female, I think you have to acknowledge that there's a cultural bias, and it does date back to this nineteenth century idea that teaching is a form of mothering.”

Thinking Doe Ideas Form Teacher Teaching Century Percent Female Acknowledge Bias Nineteenth Century Mothering

Author:Dana Goldstein

“Because I had some roles that resonated with women, I immediately noticed that there were far more male characters than female characters in what we're showing little kids in the 21st century, which was stunning to me. But I couldn't find anybody else who noticed.”

Littles Character Kids Roles Century Female Males 21st Century Little Kid Stunning Female Characters

Author:Geena Davis