“In nature, creatures never ended the lives of others except to survive. To women, abortion was self-defense and preservation of the species. Abortion was not a fancy borne out of the female mind. Abortion was instinct beyond ideas. Abortion was fear (the cat that devours its litter when a predator nears).” MindIdeasSelfCreaturesFemaleCatInstinctSpeciesDefenseFancyAbortionPreservationSelf DefensePredatorLives Of OthersFemale Mind Book:Sapogonia: (an Anti-romance in 3/8 Meter) Source: Sapogonia: (an Anti-romance in 3/8 Meter)
“The human animal ... is ... neither male nor female ... And if I am allowed to jest a little in passing, I have a joke that is not altogether irrelevant: nothing resembles a male cat on the windowsill more than a female cat.” IfsHumansLittlesAnimalJokesFemaleCatMalesPassingPassingsIrrelevantJestHuman Animal Author:Marie de Gournay
“What! Did Sir W[alter] R[aleigh] believe that a male and female ounce (and, if so, why not two tigers and lions, etc?) would have produced, in a course of generations, a cat, or a cat a lion? This is Darwinizing with a vengeance.” IfsBelieveTwoCoursesGenerationsFemaleCatMalesEtcWhy NotLionsTigersVengeance Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“I have a lot of very close girlfriends and sisters - I'm from an all female family. My father often quips that even the cat was neutered!” FatherFamilyFemaleCatGirlfriendSisterQuip Author:Shirley Manson
“I grew up in a house full of women: my mother, grandmother, three sisters, and two female cats. And I still have the buzz of their conversations in my head. As an adult, I have more female friends than male ones: I just love the way that women talk.” WayStillsTwoMotherThreeHouseGrewConversationGrew UpAdultsFemaleCatMalesGrandmotherBuzzMother GrandmotherFemale FriendsThree Sisters Author:James Patterson
“Well. Then we had the irises, rising beautiful and cool on their tall stalks, like blown glass, like pastel water momentarily frozen in a splash, light blue, light mauve, and the darker ones, velvet and purple, black cat's ears in the sun, indigo shadow, and the bleeding hearts, so female in shape it was a surprise they'd not long since been rooted out. There is something subversive about this garden of Serena's, a sense of buried things bursting upwards, wordlessly, into the light, as if to point, to say: Whatever is silenced will clamor to be heard, though silently.” IfsWellsHeartLongLightBeautifulBlackWaterSunHeardShapesShadowFemaleGardenCatEarsBlueSurpriseGlassesRisingTallBuriedRootedFrozenPurpleBleedingStalkingSubversiveVelvetBurstingClamorIrisesIndigoBlack CatBleeding HeartPastelLight Blue Book:The Handmaid's Tale Source: The Handmaid's Tale
“We would not have hurt the child, even if she is our natural enemy. Nor would we have hurt you, if it could be helped. Finn was killed by a male cat, and in exchange for that information, we also agreed to try to remove the female cats from your encampment before the true melee begins.” Melee?! Were these ninja birds? Green Berets with feathers?” IfsTryingChildrenNaturalHurtEnemyInformationBirdFemaleCatGreenMalesRemoveFeathersNinjaNatural EnemiesGreen BeretEncampment Book:Shift Source: Shift