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Gender

TOP GIRLS
1. 'I tried to be a clergyman's daughter. Needlework, music, charitable schemes.'
2. 'He found it interesting...that I could make scones and lasso cattle.'
3. 'I belonged to him.'
4. 'I beat him until he cried and promised he would never order anyone to hit us again.'
5. 'I shouldn't have been a woman. Women, children and lunatics can't be Pope.'
6. I thought I knew more science than he did and almost as much philosophy.'
7. 'She's not going to make it.'
8. 'I don't wear trousers in the office. I could, but I don't.'
9. Men are awful bullshitters, they like to make out jobs are harder than they are.'
THE WASP FACTORY
1. 'He cried like a girl.'
2. 'I hate her, the idea of her.'
3. 'I killed her other son, and I hoped she was dead, too.'
EDUCATING RITA
1. 'Denny found out I was on the pill again.'
2. 'She's very caring, very tolerant, admires me enormously and spends a good deal of time with her head in the oven.'
  1. 'Tryin' to kill herself.'
THE HANDMAID'S TALE
1. 'I move my hips a little, feeling the full red skirt sway around me.'
2. 'Lay is always passive...I'd like to lay her.'
3. 'Gender Treachery.'
4. 'Maybe boredom is erotic, when women do it, for men.'
5. 'I wait, washed, brushed, fed, like a prized pig.'
6. 'Which of us is it worse for, her or me?'
THE COLOUR PURPLE
1. '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.'
2. '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.'
3. 'He took my other baby, a boy this time. But I don't think he kilt it. I think he sold it...'
4. '''Women work', he say. 'What?' She say. Women work, I'm a man.''
5. You got to fight them, Celie, she say. I can't do it for you. You got to fight them for youself.'

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