“Once sex rears its ugly 'ead it's time to steer clear.”
Margery Allingham (1904–1966) English writer of detective fiction
‘Flowers for the Judge’ (1936) ch. 4.
Fiction Writings
“Sex is rearing its interesting head.”
— Robert A. Heinlein, book Sixth Column
Source: Sixth Column (1949; originally serialized in 1941), Chapter 7 (p. 83)
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "Sex is rearing its interesting head." by Robert A. Heinlein?
Robert A. Heinlein557
American science fiction author 1907–1988Related quotes
“When danger reared its ugly head,
He bravely turned his tail and fled.”
Graham Chapman (1941–1989) English comedian, writer and actor
Source: Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Book): Mønti Pythøn Ik Den Hølie Gräilen
Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) American author, poet, editor and literary critic
" The Haunted Palace http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/poe/17478" (1839), st. 1.
Alan Keyes (1950) American politician
Reception in Winder, Georgia, September 11, 2003. http://renewamerica.us/archives/speeches/03_09_11reception.htm. <br class="br">2009
William McKeen (1954) American academic
In fact, getting the story became the story. His writing could be classified as metajournalism, journalism about the process of journalism.
Source: Outlaw Journalist (2008), Chapter 5, Observer, p. 73
“Sex, without society as its landscape, has never been of much interest to fiction.”
Elizabeth Hardwick (1916–2007) Novelist, short story writer, literary critic
Guilt, Character, Possibilities" (p. 235)
American Fictions (1999)
“It is in the interests of both sexes to hear the other sex's experience of powerlessness.”
Warren Farrell (1943) author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate
Source: Why Men Are the Way They Are (1988), p. xvii.
Context: Was it possible for the sexes to hear each other without saying, My powerlessness is greater than your powerlessness? It was becoming obvious each sex had a unique experience of both power and powerlessness. In my mind's eye I began to visualize a listening matrix as a framework within which we could hear these different experiences. It looked like this:
Mikhail Bulgakov book The Master and Margarita
Book One in 'Black Magic and Its Expose', B/O
The Master and Margarita (1967)
“A bully is nothing more than a bunch of bull with a Y attached to its rear.”
Lorin Morgan-Richards (1975) American poet, cartoonist, and children's writer
Excerpt from the book The Goodbye Family Unveiled (2017) by Lorin Morgan-Richards.