This tension-the idea that there is a right way to be a woman, a right way to be the most essential woman- is ongoing and pervasive.
This was another skill women were meant to learn: when a man's story had come to an end. Mostly, it wasn't a problem, as the end was thumpingly obvious; or else the narrator started snorting with laug...
(pl. ) of Herdswoman
(pl. ) of Woman
(n.) pl. of Woman.
To be popular one must be a mediocrity.Not with Women, said the duchess, shaking her head; and women rule the world. I assure you we can't bear mediocrities. We women, as someone says, love with our e...
To him it was a sort of hyperspace-librarian, girl-geek thing that he found clever and fetching without attracting him in a way that would have been creepy.
Tomorrow's character is made out of today's thoughts. Temptation may come suddenly, but sin doesn't.
Truth is female, since truth is beauty rather than handsomeness; this, Ridcully reflected as the council grumbled in, would certainly explain the saying that a lie could run around the world before Tr...
Two women at the same event wearing the same outfit is a disaster. But two women at the same event singing the same song is a party. And two women at the same event talking about Doris from Fame is a...
Two years hence you will be as calm as I am now, - and far, far happier, I trust, for you are a man and free to act as you please
Under her high brows, she eyed him straight on and straight across. She had gone to girls' schools, he recalled later. Those girls looked straight at you.
Under the Iranian code, the worth of a woman’s life equals half of a man’s, a point that often leads to grotesque legal judgments that effectively punish the victims. In this instance, the judge ruled...
Unless she married soon, Bond thought for the hundredth time, or had a lover, her cool air of authority might easily become spinsterish and she would join the army of women who had married a career.
Unseen University had never admitted women, muttering something about problems with the plumbing, but the real reason was an unspoken dread that if women were allowed to mess around with magic they wo...
Until her last moment on earth she was unaware that her irreparable fate as a disturbing woman was a daily disaster.
Until that moment I'd thought I could have it both ways; to be one of them, and also my husband's wife. What conceit! I was his instrument, his animal. Nothing more. How we wives and mothers do perish...
Until we look from the bottom up we have nothing.
Up until then I'd thought that white people and colored people getting along was the big aim, but after that I decided everybody being colorless together was a better plan. I thought of that policeman...
Upon my soul!' Tietjens said to himself, 'that girl down there is the only intelligent living soul I've met for years.' A little pronounced in manner sometimes; faulty in reasoning naturally, but quit...
Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I'm not ready for that yet.
Very likely some Mrs Grundy will observe, I don't believe it, boys will be boys, young men must sow their wild oats, and women must not expect miracles. I dare say you don't, Mrs. Grundy, but it's tru...
Was it necessary to tell me that you wanted nothing in the world but me?'The corners of his mouth drooped peevishly.Oh, my dear, it's rather hard to take quite literally the things a man says when he'...
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