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  • It's been suggested that most women fail to write significantly because the female mind is viscerotonic, and occupied almost exclusively with the moment-to-moment reality of emotions. If this is true, literature's loss is science fiction's gain, for Out of Bounds, Judith Merril's collection of short stories, is a warm and colorful rendering of the minutiae of the future.

    Writing   Loss   Reality  
  • It was in this year, 1828, that the standard of "the Christian Party in Politics" was openly unfurled... This was an evident attempt, through the influence of the clergy over the female mind - until this hour lamentably neglected in the United States - to effect a union of Church and State.

    Christian   Party   Years  
  • Some philosophers would give a sex to revenge, and appropriate it almost exclusively to the female mind. But, like most other vices, it is of both genders; yet, because wounded vanity and slighted love are the two most powerful excitements to revenge, it has been thought, perhaps, to rage with more violence in the female heart.

    Sex   Powerful   Revenge  
    Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.107
  • No man of any intelligence would pretend to know a female mind.

    Men   Mind   Female  
    Julia Quinn (2004). “When he was wicked”
  • Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience; but, as blind obedience is ever sought for by power, tyrants and sensualists are in the right when they endeavor to keep women in the dark because, the former only want slaves, and the latter a play-thing.

    Dark   Play   Tyrants  
    1792 A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, pt.1, ch.2.
  • Far be it from me, my dear sister, to depreciate such pleasures. They would doubtless be congenial with the generality of female minds. But I confess they would have no charms for me. I should infinitely prefer a book.

    Book   Mind   Female  
    Jane Austen (1819). “Pride and Prejudice: A Novel”, p.197
  • Colin decided then and there that the female mind was a strange and incomprehensible organ - one which no man should even attempt to understand. There wasn't a woman alive who could go from point A to B without stopping at C, D, X, and 12 along the way.

    Men   Romance   Mind  
    Julia Quinn (2009). “Romancing Mr Bridgerton: Number 4 in series”, p.77, Hachette UK
  • It was futile to attack with reason the stout wall of irrational feelings that, as is known, is the stuff of which the female mind is made.

    Wall   Feelings   Mind  
    Milan Kundera (1974). “Laughable Loves”
  • The female mind is certainly a devious one, my lord." Vetinari looked at his secretary in surprise. "Well, of course it is. It has to deal with the male one.

    Mind   Males   Female  
    Terry Pratchett (2016). “Seriously Funny: The Endlessly Quotable Terry Pratchett”, p.22, Random House
  • Let there be no mistake. A gay man alone could never begin to replicate the inner workings of the female mind.

    Mistake   Gay   Men  
  • I think there's something very lovely and hilarious about exploring the particular neuroses of the female mind. It's just not the same thing with men. I mean, there are exceptions, but for the most part, women beat themselves up in their heads more. They overanalyze stuff far more than men do.

    Mean   Men   Thinking  
    "Sundance Breakout Lizzy Caplan on "Save the Date" and Her Raunchy Comedy "Bachelorette". Interview with Bilge Ebiri, www.vulture.com. January 25, 2012.
  • Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.

    Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.601, Library of America
  • But the female mind has demonstrated a capacity for all the mental acquirements and achievements of men, and as generations ensue that capacity will be expanded; the average woman will be as well educated as the average man, and then better educated, for the dormant faculties of her brain will be stimulated to an activity that will be all the more intense and powerful because of centuries of repose. Woman will ignore precedent and startle civilization with their progress.

    "When woman is boss". "Colliers" Magazine, January 30, 1926.
  • The female mind is capable of understanding analytic geometry... The difficulty may just be that we have never yet discovered a way to communicate with the female mind. If it is done in the right way, you may be able to get something out of it.

  • In nature, creatures never ended the lives of others except to survive. To women, abortion was self-defense and preservation of the species. Abortion was not a fancy borne out of the female mind. Abortion was instinct beyond ideas. Abortion was fear (the cat that devours its litter when a predator nears).

    Cat   Self   Ideas  
    Ana Castillo (1990). “Sapogonia: (an Anti-romance in 3/8 Meter)”, Bilingual Press
  • The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.

    Order   Mind   Female  
    James Madison (1867). “1816-1828”, p.232
  • Her companion's discourse now sunk from its hitherto animated pitch, to nothing more than a short, decisive sentence of praise or condemnation on the face of every woman they met; and Catherine, after listening and agreeing as long as she could,with all the civility and deference of the youthful female mind, fearful of hazarding an opinion of its own in opposition to that of a self-assured man, especially where the beauty of her own sex is concerned, ventured at length to vary the subject.

    Sex   Men   Self  
    Jane Austen, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Jane Austen: All novels, short stories, letters and poems”, p.974, GENERAL PRESS
  • When female minds are embittered by age or solitude, their malignity is generally exerted in a rigorous and spiteful superintendence of domestic trifles.

    Women   Solitude   Mind  
    Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1857). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.177
  • Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.

    1792 A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, pt.1, ch.2.
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