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“There were many women in the Soviet scientific community, proportionately more so than in the United States. But they tended to occupy menial middle-level positions, and male Soviet scientists, lik...”
“Wanderess, Wanderess, weave us a story of seduction and ruse. Heroic be the Wanderess, the world be her muse.”
“You crawled inside myribs to die. Giant becomes squirrelbecomes a dirt-wet girlfeverishly alive.”
“Unaffected modesty is the sweetest charm of female excellence, the richest gem in the diadem of her honor.”
“Females in general are embodiment of alluring mysteries that is beyond mortal capacity to decipher or understand.”
“I prefer people to consider me by who I am and what I do and not by how I look!”
“I think that all women are witches, in the sense that a witch is a magical being. And a wizard, which is a male version of a witch, is kind of revered, and people respect wizards. But a witch, my g...”
“You cannot help being a female, and I should be something of a fool were I to discount your talents merely because of their housing.”
“I act as a sponge. I soak it up and squeeze it out in ink every two weeks.”
“No wonder male religious leaders so often say that humans were born in sin—because we were born to female creatures. Only by obeying the rules of the patriarchy can we be reborn through men. No won...”
“Few female characters get to be “the Chosen One” in science fiction and fantasy. Leia is as much the child of Darth Vader as Luke is, but only Luke gets to use the force, be recruited by his dad an...”
“No, I have no desire to be a feminist, I just want to be a female,”
“The woman is not just a pleasure, nor even a problem. She is a meniscus that allows the absolute to have a shape, that lets him skate however briefly on the mystery, her presence luminous on the or...”
“You felt she'd done a thousand secret things to her eyes. They needed no haze of cigarette smoke to look at you out of sexy and fathomless, but carried their own along with them. New York must have...”
