“Cleopatra stood at one of the most dangerous intersections in history; that of women and power. Clever women, Euripides had warned hundreds of years earlier, were dangerous.”

Source: Lady Midnight

Source: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992), The Rape Debate, Continued, p. 65
Context: Feminists have no idea that some women like to flirt with danger because there is a sizzle in it. You know what gets me sick and tired? The battered-woman motif. It’s so misrepresented, the way we have to constantly look at it in terms of male oppression and tyranny, and female victimization. When, in fact, everyone knows throughout the history of the world that many of these working-class relationships where women get beat up have hot sex. They ask why won’t she leave him? Maybe she won’t leave him because the sex is very hot. I say we should start looking at the battered-wife motif in terms of sex. If gay men go down to bars and like to get tied up, beaten up, and have their asses whipped, how come we can’t allow that a lot of wives like the kind of sex they are getting in these battered wife relationships? We can’t consider that women have kinky tastes, can we? No, because women are naturally benevolent and nurturing, aren’t they? Everything is so damn Mary Poppins and sanitized.

Eddie Izzard is not a woman, 20 December 2020

Chi scappa d’un punto ne schifa cento.
Act IV, scene IV. — (Fannio).
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 271.
La Calandria (c. 1507)

The Force of Reason, 2006
The Force of Reason

Meine Skepsis bewahrt mich davor, Fanatiker zu werden wovor noch kein Glaube geschützt hat. <br class="br"> deschner.info http://www.deschner.info/index.htm?/de/person/zitate.htm

Source: Magic Slays

Source: Finnikin of the Rock