“"I am female," I complained. "That 'it' business is really getting on my nerves." […]
"By whose definition?"
"How about by yours? In my species, I am the one that bears young. Is that not female enough for you?"”

—  Stephenie Meyer, book The Host

Wanderer and Jared Howe, p. 349
The Host (2008)

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