The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerence. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.

-Angelou, Maya originally MayaJohnson
  I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, ch.34

And God said, Let us create man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepethuponthe earth. So God createdmaninhis own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. And God blessed them, and God said unto them,Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Genesis1:26^8.

They went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Genesis 7:9.

There isneither Jew nor Greek, there isneither bond nor free, there isneither malenor female: for yeareall onein Christ Jesus. 122

-Bible (NewTestament)
Galatians 3:28.

I am obnoxious to each carping tongue Who says my hand a needle better fits, A poet's pen all scorn I should thus wrong For such despite they cast on female wits; If what I do prove well, it won't advance, They'll say it's stolen, or else, it was by chance.

-Bradstreet, Anne ne¤  e Dudley
  Several Poems Compiled with Great Variety of  Wit and Learning,'The Prologue'.

'Getting into the key of C sharp,' he said,'is like an unprotected female travelling on the Metropolitan Railway, and finding herself at Shepherd's Bush, without quite knowing where she wants togo to.How isshe ever to get safe back to Clapham Junction?'

-Butler, Samuel
  The Way of  All Flesh.

Am I prepared to lay down my life for the British female? Really, who knows?† Ah, for a child in the street I could strike; for the full- blown ladyö Somehow, Eustace, alas! I have not felt the vocation.

-Clough, Arthur Hugh
  Amours de Voyage, canto 2, pt.4.

In the sex war thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.

-Connolly, Cyril Vernon
  The Unquiet Grave, pt.1.

The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.

-Connolly,James
  The Re-conquest of Ireland.

   In marrying, a man does not, to be sure, marry his wife's mother; and yet a prudent man, when he begins to think of the daughter, would look sharp at the mother; ay, and back to the grandmother too, and along the whole female line of ancestry.

-Edgeworth, Maria
  Count O'Halloran's advice to Lord Colambare. The Absentee, ch.15.

What female heart can gold despise? What cat's averse to fish?

-Gray,Thomas
  Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes, l.23^4.

   4. The chosen and male shall go forth unto professions while the chosen and female shall be homely, fecund, docile and slightly artistic.

-Kennedy, A(lison) L(ouise)
  Looking for thePossible Dance,'The Scottish Methodfor the Perfection of Children'.

The female of the species is more deadly than the male.

-Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard
  Rudyard Kipling's Verse,'The Female of the Species'.

To me the'female principle' is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by force. It has been the male who enforces order, who constructs power Lehmann-Haupt structures, who makes, enforces, and breaks laws.

-Le Guin, Ursula ne¤  e Kroeber
'Is Gender Necessary?', in  Anderson and McIntyre (eds)  Aurora (1976).

But thisnovel wasnot a trumpet for Women's Liberation. It described many female emotions of aggression, hostility, resentment. It put them into print. Apparently what many women were thinking, feeling, experiencing came as a great surprise.

-Lessing, Doris May ne¤  e Tayler
The Golden Notebook, preface to new edition.

Durch schlechte K o« chinnenödurch den vollkommenen Mangel anVernunft in der Ku«  che ist die Entwicklung des Menschen am l a« ngsten aufgehalten, am schlimmsten beeintr a« chtigt worden. Through bad female cooksöthrough the entire lack of reason inthekitchenöthe development of mankind has been longest retarded and most interfered with.

-Nietzsche, FriedrichWilhelm
  Jenseits von Gut und Bo«  se (Beyond Good and Evil), section 234 (translated by Helen Zimmern,1907).

The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.

-Nightingale, Florence
  'Cassandra' pt.4, part of an unpublished work  Suggestions for Thought to Searchers after Religious Truth (revised and privately printed1859). Published as an appendix in Ray Strachey The Cause:  A Short History of the Women's Movement in Great Britain (1928).

The sea is mother-death and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up.

-Sexton, Anne ne¤  e Harvey
Journal entry,19 Nov, in The Poet's Story,'A SmallJournal'.

As fattening is the first duty of fashionable female life, it must be duly enforced by the rod if necessary. I got up a bit of flirtation with missy, and induced her to rise and shake hands with me. Her face was lovely, but her body was as round as a ball.

-Speke,John Hanning
  In Karagwe, west of LakeVictoria, among the Galla people. Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile.

The Old Testament makes woman a mere after-thought in creation; the author of evil; cursed in her maternity; a subject in marriage; and all female life, animal and human, unclean.

-Stanton, Elizabeth ne¤  e  Cady
  TheWoman's Bible, pt.2, preface.