She had never met a woman from the waking world. Once she asked Carter about it." Women don't dream large dreams, " he had said, dismissively. "It is all babies and housework. Tiny dreams." Men said stupid things all the time, and it was perhaps no surprise that men of the waking world might do so as well, yes she was disappointed in Carter. Kij Johnson
You can't beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don't even try to.
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William Faulkner
With boys there was a fundamental assumption that they had a right to be there –Â not always, but more often than not. With girls, 'Why her?' came up so quickly.
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Helen Oyeyemi
Gender mattered a whole lot less to Shakespeare than it seems to matter to us.
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John Irving
Look, girls. It is important to all of us that we win this game, right? Well, when it comes to athletics, boys are simply better suited than girls. It’s a fact of nature that no one can change. I’m sorry, but maybe you can play...
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Francine Pascal
Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol of that: mother of the earth, slut of the universe; but she never becomes herself because it is forbidden for her to do so.
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Andrea Dworkin
More Quotes By Kij Johnson
I feel strangely free at such times. To behave properly is to be always courteous, always clever, and subtle and elegant. But now, when I am so alone, I do not have to be any of these things. For this moment, I am wholly myself,...
Happiness is the pleasantest of emotions; because of this, it is the most dangerous. Having once felt happiness, one will do anything to maintain it, and losing it, one will grieve.
As a young woman, when she had been beautiful and had worn her hair short and her clothes loose to conceal that fact, she had known all the signs of men and read them well enough that she had been successfully robbed only three times...
I can write about it if I am careful, if I keep it far enough away.
Aeneas comes to her court a suppliant, impoverished and momentarily timid. He is a good-looking man. If anything, his scars emphasize that. The aura of his divine failure wraps around him like a cloak. Dido feels the tender contempt of the strong for the unlucky,...
