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“In our culture, the Oedipal drama succeeds in making us assume either a male or female sexual position. Certainly this is an ancient construct that's rapidly coming apart.”

Culture Position Drama Succeed Female Assuming Males Ancient Constructs

Author:John Maus

“Do I ever get tired of being the first female everything? Not really, I just happened to be in a position where the job that I wanted was not really there for me. I had to create an opportunity instead of waiting for an opportunity.”

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Author:Ronda Rousey

“According to the legend an evil old doctor, who called himself God and us dogs, created the first boy in his adolescent image. The boy peopled the garden with male phantoms that rose from his ejaculations. This angered God, who was getting on in years. He decided it endangered his position as CREATOR. So he crept upon the boy and anaesthetized him and made Eve from his rib. Henceforth all creation of beings would process through female channels. But some of Adam's phantoms refused to let God near them under any pretext.”

Years Firsts Made Evil Process Boys Dog Creation Position Letting Go Female Garden Decided Doctors Rose Males Creator Legends Adam Doctor Who Phantoms Ribs Pretext Ejaculation

Author:William S. Burroughs

“I think it is kind of depressing how few female filmmakers there are. I think it is in general depressing how few women there are in ... important positions in society”

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Author:Susanne Bier

“The standard is the standard and whomever walks in the door at the time I need a person in that position who can do that job with excellence and who understands my vision, if they can fulfill it, they got the job whether they're young, old, black, white, male or female.”

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Author:T. D. Jakes

“When I was a lawyer, I looked around at the female partners at the law firm - this is many years ago. And there were three. And they were lovely and they had three very different life circumstances and journeys that had gotten them to that vaunted position.”

Years Different Law Three Journey Position Circumstances Female Years Ago Lawyer Partners Lovely Firm Different Life Law Firms

Author:Kellyanne Conway

“The male frog in mating season," said Crake, "makes as much noise as it can. The females are attracted to the male frog with the biggest, deepest voice because it suggests a more powerful frog, one with superior genes. Small male frogs—it's been documented—discover if they position themselves in empty drainpipes, the pipe acts as a voice amplifier and the small frog appears much larger than it really is." So?" So that's what art is for the artist, an empty drainpipe. An amplifier. A stab at getting laid.”

Ifs Art Said Artist Voice Powerful Position Art Is Female Empty Seasons Males Noise Superiors Genes Pipe Frogs Getting Laid Mating Amplifiers

Book:Oryx And Crake

Source: Oryx And Crake

“As far as he was concerned, there were only two good positions for a human. A female on her back. And a male facedown not breathing.”

Humans Two Position Concerned Female Males Breathing

Book:J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 1-4

Source: J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 1-4

“The gross perversion and destruction of motherhood by the abortionist filled me with indignation, and awakened active antagonism. That the honorable term 'female physician' should be exclusively applied to those women who carried on this shocking trade seemed to me a horror. It was an utter degradation of what might and should become a noble position for women.”

Source: Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women: Autobiographical Sketches