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In the Pythagorean system, thinking about numbers, or doing mathematics, was an inherently masculine task. Mathematics was associated with the gods, and with transcendence from the material world; women, by their nature, were supposedly rooted in this latter, baser realm. — Margaret Wertheim

One is not born a woman - one becomes one. — Simone de Beauvoir

The romance genre is the only genre where readers are guaranteed novels that place the heroine at the heart of the story. These are books that celebrate women's heroic virtues and values: courage, honor, determination and a belief in the healing power of love. — Jayne Ann Krentz

Women are almost two thirds more likely than men to believe in God, a major study of attitudes among middle aged Britons has found, says The Telegraph. Well, men are twice more likely than God to believe in women! {At least that was so in the Garden of Eden} — R.N. Prasher

You sure you're all right? You aren't out here pondering dark female thoughts are you? — Joe Hill NOS4A2

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room. — Virginia Woolf

Objectivity is just male subjectivity. — Jonathan Coe The House of...

Where beautiful women in 1950s culture got married or seduced, in modern culture the beauty gets raped. — Naomi Wolf The Beauty Myth

Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at. This determines not only the relations of men to women, but the relation of women to themselves. Critic John Berger's well-known quote has been true throughout the history of Western culture, and it is more true now than ever. — Naomi Wolf The Beauty Myth

We don't know how to be women because we were taught it was not OK to be girls. Our most natural impulses were thwarted and distorted. — Marianne Williamson A Woman's Worth

Is "ho" always feminine, and "muthafucka" always masculine, while "bitch" can be either? How — Christopher Moore Lamb: The Gospel...

...three percent of all males are deemed to be antisocial and without conscience, while only one percent of females seem to lack compassion for others. But the icy manipulations of that one percent are utterly fascinating. No one can be crueler than a woman without a conscience. — Ann Rule Empty Promises...

Everything sounds so much better when it comes out of a man's mouth — Chuck Palahniuk Tell-All

WITCHES LIVED AND WERE BURNED LONG BEFORE the development of modern medical technology. The great majority of them were lay healers serving the peasant population, and their suppression marks one of the opening struggles in the history of man's suppression of women as healers. The other side of the suppression of witches as healers was the creation of a new male medical profession, under the protection and patronage of the ruling classes. This new European medical profession played an important role in the witch hunts, supporting the witches' persecutors with "medical" reasoning: — Barbara Ehrenreich Witches,...

I'm no great fan of the phallus, and have made my own views known on this subject before, so I do not propose a return to a notion of the phallus as the third term in any and all relations of desire.

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