Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.
The woman pastor would often be, especially for women and children, a better minister than the clergyman; for them also, the woman judge might often surpass the man in penetration and understanding.
One man's holy is another woman's sublime.
It's a woman's book but I think the men will read it too.
Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails.
It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain!
The man is either mad, or he is making verses.
Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?
The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide.
A friend of mine wrote a script, a feminist romantic comedy. She had a feminist scholar consult on it. My friend said, 'Oh, my friend Gillian read it and really loved it.' She goes, 'Gillian Jacobs, you mean: Britta Perry, feminist icon?'