Canto VIII.
Fridthjof's Saga (1820-1825)
“It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.”
Variant: It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple; one must be woman-manly or man-womanly.... Some marriage of opposites has to be consummated.
Source: A Room of One's Own
Hannity & Colmes (7 June 2006); later quoted in If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans (2007), "Liberal "Argument": Hissing, Scratching, and Hair-Pulling, p. 157.
2006
"The Song of the Camp" (1856), in The Poetical Works of Bayard Taylor (1907), p. 86.
“You blessed my life!
Never on me had rested woman's love.”
Cyrano, Act 5, Sc. 6
Cyrano de Bergerac (1897)
Context: You blessed my life!
Never on me had rested woman's love.
My mother even could not find me fair:
I had no sister; and, when grown a man,
I feared the mistress who would mock at me.
But I have had your friendship — grace to you
A woman's charm has passed across my path.
“I may have a beard, and manly limbs and body, yet confined by these, I am and remain a woman”
Sunt mihi barba maris, artus, corpusque virile, His inclusa quidem. Sed sum maneoque puella
Inclusa (1864), quoted in: Hubert C. Kennedy (1988), Ulrichs: the life and works of Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, p. 56
“A man's honor always seems to want to kill a woman to satisfy it.”
Source: The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Reader
