“It is odd enough to see how the entrance of a person of the opposite sex into an assemblage of either men or women calms down the little discordances and the disturbance of mood.”

— Elizabeth Gaskell , book Wives and Daughters

Wives and Daughters, ch. 11
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novelist 1810–1865

Laura Riding Jackson (1901–1991) poet, critic, novelist, essayist and short story writer

"A Personal Letter, With a Request for a Reply", January 1937

“[In the past] women painted women: w:Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, [[w:Mary Cassatt|Mary Cassatt], and so forth... And I thought, men always painted the opposite sex, and I wanted to paint men as sex objects.”

Elaine de Kooning (1918–1989) American painter

In the exhibition's catalog book 'Elaine de Kooning Portraits' - Brandon Fortune quotes Elaine de Kooning, telling scholar Ann Gibson in 1987; - - read more http://newmexicomercury.com/blog/comments/elaine_de_kooning_paints_a_portrait#sthash.LLVWii3U.dpuf
1972 - 1989

“Be calm. A man can do but little. Enough if that little be right.”

Poul Anderson book There Will Be Time

Source: There Will Be Time (1972), Chapter 11 (p. 126)

“Why do magazines do this to women? It's
all about creating insecurity. Trying to make women feel like they're not good enough. And when women don't feel like they're good enough, guess what? Men win. That's how they keep us down.”

Candace Bushnell book Summer and the City

Source: Summer and the City

“[Demystifying lesbian sex for an interviewer] In a way, the sex isn’t really that different… From what I can tell, no, not really. All the things that men and women do together, think of everything that men and women do together, women and women can do together. And that makes you realize that sex is just simply about connecting with another person, or about intimacy…”

Jennifer Beals (1963) American actress and a former teen model

Asahi Radio Interview, Japan (2008) http://publications.asahi.com/ae/interviews/jennifer/index.shtml

“Friedan: A celebration of women's bodies is all right with me so long as there is no denial of the personhood of women. I suppose sometimes women are sex objects -- and men are too, by the way. It's the definition of women just as sex objects that bothers me. Women can celebrate themselves as sex objects, they can celebrate their own sexuality and can enjoy the sexuality of men as far as I'm concerted. Let's have men centerfolds. [.. ] Playboy's centerfold is fine. It's holding onto your own anachronism and it is not pornographic, though many of my sisters would disagree. It's harmless. […] Playboy strikes me as an odd mixture of sex -- sometimes juvenile --- and forward intellectual thoughts.”

Betty Friedan (1921–2006) American activist

The Playboy Interview (1992)

“It's imprecise and insufficient, defining the homosexual as a person whose gender expression is at odds with his or her sex.”

Alison Bechdel (1960) American cartoonist, author

Source: Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

“This violence is a calm that disturbs you.”

Jean Genet book The Thief's Journal

The Thief's Journal (1949)

“Women have very little idea of how much men hate them.”

Germaine Greer book The Female Eunuch

p. 263 http://books.google.com/books?ei=7hdeUeCtEOGmiQLnu4HYBg&id=x88du4E7ARAC&dq=%22The+Female+Eunuch%22+1971&q=%22hate+them%22#search_anchor
Often paraphrased as: "women have no idea how much men hate them."
The Female Eunuch (1970)

“I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

“It is odd enough to see how the entrance of a person of the opposite sex into an assemblage of either men or women calms down the little discordances and the disturbance of mood.”

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