Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Gender
- TOP GIRLS
- 'I tried to be a clergyman's
daughter. Needlework,
music, charitable
schemes.'
- 'He found it interesting...that I
could make scones and lasso
cattle.'
- 'I belonged to him.'
- 'I beat him until he
cried and promised he
would never order
anyone to hit us again.'
- 'I shouldn't have been a
woman. Women, children and
lunatics can't be Pope.'
- I thought I knew more
science than he did and
almost as much
philosophy.'
- 'She's not going to make it.'
- 'I don't wear
trousers in the
office. I could, but
I don't.'
- Men are awful bullshitters,
they like to make out jobs
are harder than they are.'
- THE WASP FACTORY
- 'He cried like a girl.'
- 'I hate her, the idea of her.'
- 'I killed her other son,
and I hoped she was
dead, too.'
- EDUCATING RITA
- 'Denny found out I was on the pill again.'
- 'She's very caring, very tolerant, admires
me enormously and spends a good deal
of time with her head in the oven.'
- 'Tryin' to kill herself.'
- THE HANDMAID'S TALE
- 'I move my hips a little, feeling the
full red skirt sway around me.'
- 'Lay is always passive...I'd like to lay her.'
- 'Gender Treachery.'
- 'Maybe boredom is erotic, when women do it, for men.'
- 'I wait, washed, brushed, fed, like a prized pig.'
- 'Which of us is it worse for, her or me?'
- THE COLOUR PURPLE
- 'Harpo say, I love you,
Squeak. He kneel down and
try to put his arms round her.
She stand up. My name
Mary Agnes, she say.'
- 'Shug act more many than
most men...he say. You
know Shug will fight, he
say. Just like Sofia she
bound to live her life and be
herself no matter what.'
- 'He took my other baby, a boy this
time. But I don't think he kilt it. I think
he sold it...'
- '''Women work', he say. 'What?' She say. Women work, I'm a man.''
- You got to fight them, Celie, she say. I can't do it
for you. You got to fight them for youself.'