“There are plenty of fish in the sea, if I run out of women.”
Joey Comeau (1980) writer
A Softer World
“There are plenty of images of women in science fiction. There are hardly any women.”
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Ibn Ishaq (704–767) Arab historian
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“I was hardly fit for human society. Thus destiny shaped me to be a science fiction writer.”
Brian W. Aldiss (1925–2017) British science fiction author
The Twinkling of an Eye: My Life as an Englishman (1998) Unsourced variant: "Why had I become a writer in the first place? Because I wasn't fit for society; I didn't fit into the system."
“Women are, all of them, the veritable images of Śakti.”
Ramakrishna (1836–1886) Indian mystic and religious preacher
Source: The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (1942), p. 116
“It’s certain that fine women eat
A crazy salad with their meat
Whereby the Horn of plenty is undone.”
W.B. Yeats book Michael Robartes and the Dancer
St. 4 <br class="br">Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921), A Prayer For My Daughter http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1421/
“Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.”
Virginia Woolf book A Room of One's Own
Source: A Room of One's Own
“History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.”
O. Henry book Roads of Destiny
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Roads of Destiny (1909)
Betty Friedan book The Feminine Mystique
Source: The Feminine Mystique (1963), Ch. 1 "The Problem That Has No Name"
“Science Fiction: Any scientific acclaim that omits God.”
Johnny Hart (1931–2007) American cartoonist