“For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.”
Rudyard Kipling
“For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely unnatural condition.”
Robert Briffault
“There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.”
C.S. Lewis
“-I wish there was a manual for females [...]. -If there is, I haven't got my copy.”
Ordo and Kal Skirata (in Republic Commando: True Colors by Karen Traviss)
“Rudyard Kipling coined the phrase: 'The female of the species is more deadly than the male.' Well - look at Jeannette Rankin, ... Probably a hundred men in Congress would have liked to do what she did. Not one of them had the courage to do it. The Gazette entirely disagrees with the wisdom of her position. But, Lord, it was a brave thing!”
William Allen White
“I do not want to be the leader. I refuse to be the leader. I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness. I want a man lying over me, always over me. His will, his pleasure, his desire, his life, his work, his sexuality the touchstone, the command, my pivot. I don’t mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically; but as a woman, oh, God, as a woman I want to be dominated. I don’t mind being told to stand on my own feet, not to cling, be all that I am capable of doing, but I am going to be pursued, fucked, possessed by the will of a male at his time, his bidding.”
Anais Nin
“In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.”
Cyril Connolly
