Are simple women only fit To dress, to darn, to flower or knit, To mind the distaff, or the spit? Why are the needle and the pen Thought incompatible by men? 507

-Lewis, Esther married name  Clark
  'A Mirror for Detractors', l.146^50.

This is not a book in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit inthe face of Art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny,Time, Love, Beauty†what you will. I am going to sing for you, a little off-key perhaps, but I will sing.

-Miller, Henry Valentine
  Tropic of Cancer.

For your names Of whores and murderers, they proceed from you, As if a man should spit against the wind; The filth returns in's face.

-Webster,John
  TheWhite Devil, act 3, sc.2.