“Sex is rearing its interesting head.”

— Robert A. Heinlein , book Sixth Column

Source: Sixth Column (1949; originally serialized in 1941), Chapter 7 (p. 83)

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American science fiction author 1907–1988

Margery Allingham (1904–1966) English writer of detective fiction

‘Flowers for the Judge’ (1936) ch. 4.
Fiction Writings

“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

“In the greenest of our valleys
By good angels tenanted,
Once a fair and stately palace —
Radiant palace — reared its head.”

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.

“It is a conceded fact that woman is being reared as a sex commodity, and yet she is kept in absolute ignorance of the meaning and importance of sex.”

Emma Goldman book Anarchism and Other Essays

Anarchism and Other Essays (1910), The Traffic in Women

“We must reject dictatorship in whatever form it takes — and especially when it rears its head in our own midst on the bench.”

Alan Keyes (1950) American politician

Reception in Winder, Georgia, September 11, 2003. http://renewamerica.us/archives/speeches/03_09_11reception.htm.
2009

“In these letters to Ridley, Hunters Gonzo style began to rear its head. One of the characteristics of the style Hunter developed was his preoccupation of getting the story.”

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:

“... said the not entirely suppressed old Ivan, rearing his head from inside the new one, although without much confidence.”

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.

“Sex is rearing its interesting head.”

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