"Women make up one half of society. Our society will remain backward and in chains unless its women are liberated, enlightened and educated"
— Saddam Hussein (The Revolution and Woman in Iraq)

""...he had a way of taking your hand which made it clear he'd have to be the one to let go."

From Alice Hoffman's "Local Girls", pg.102."
— Alice Hoffman (Local Girls)

"I am at a loss to conceive how a man should permit himself to write anything that would be truly disgraceful to a woman, or why a woman should be censured for writing anything that would be proper and becoming for a man."
— Anne Brontë

"Are you a female dog?
Then why are you acting like a bitch?"
— Lisi Harrison

""I am female," I complained. "That 'it' business is really getting on my nerves."
"Because of the body you wear?"
"Because of me," I hissed
"By whose definiton?"
"How about yours? In my species, I am the one that bears young. Is that not female enough for you?"
"That's just great," someone said under his breath. "We've got a bloody queen mother alien living with us. She could blow into a million new buggers at any moment."

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— Stephenie Meyer

"Unaffected modesty is the sweetest charm of female excellence, the richest gem in the diadem of her honor."
— Noah Webster (The Noah Webster 1828 Dictionary with King James Bible in Libronix CD)

"Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you by the gazelles and by the does of the field:
Do not arouse or awaken love until it so desires. (Song of Songs 3:5)"
— Anonymous

"Because I'm moved in writing to be irrepressible. Writing to you seems like some holy cause, cause there's not enough female irrepressibility written down. I've fused my silence and repression with the entire female gender's silence and repression. I think the sheer fact of women talking, being, paradoxical, inexplicable, flip, self-destructive but above all else public is the most revolutionary thing in the world."
— Chris Kraus (I Love Dick)

""early morn spread you bare whiff of hot night must sniff your bare hole and fall in love all over again""
— yours truly