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Familiar Quotations

Petticoat

Many an Irish property was increased by the lace of a daughter's petticoat.–Irish Proverb

Petticoat – "Female"

If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.–Margaret Atwood

In sex we have the source of man's true connection with the cosmos and of his servile dependence. The categories of sex, male and female, are cosmic categories, not merely anthropological categories.–Nikolai Berdyaev

The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.–Angela Carter

Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black.–Shirley Chisholm

Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.–Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.–Cyril Connolly

The feminist anti-pornography movement, no less than the feminist movement of a century ago, encourages the assumption that male and female sexuality, and possibly morality, are as unlike as yin and yang.–Barbara Ehrenreich

Every animal is sad after coitus except the human female and the rooster.–Claudius Galen

Unlike femininity, relaxed masculinity is at bottom empty, a limp nullity. While the female body is full of internal potentiality, the male is internally barren. Manhood at the most basic level can be validated and expressed only in action.–George Gilder

• Preface v
• Familiar Quotations 1
• Petticoat 1
• Petticoat – "Female" 1
• Petticoat – "Skirt" 2
• Use in Literature 3
• Petticoat 3
• Petticoat – "Behind" 14
• Petticoat – "Being" 14
• Petticoat – "Big" 14
• Petticoat – "Dresses" 15
• Petticoat – "Female" 17
• Petticoat – "Figure" 18
• Petticoat – "Found" 18
• Petticoat – "Girl" 19
• Petticoat – "Great" 20
• Petticoat – "Hair" 20
• Petticoat – "Hands" 21
• Petticoat – "Head" 21
• Petticoat – "Herself" 22
• Petticoat – "Jacket" 23
• Petticoat – "Laid" 23
• Petticoat – "Little" 24
• Petticoat – "Man" 25
• Petticoat – "Nothing" 25
• Petticoat – "Old" 26
• Petticoat – "Pink" 26
• Petticoat – "Place" 27
• Petticoat – "Poor" 27
• Petticoat – "Silk" 28
• Petticoat – "Wore" 28
• Petticoat – "White" 30
• Petticoat – "Women" 32
• Petticoat – "World" 33
• Petticoat – "Younger" 33
• Nonfiction Usage 35
• Script Usage 35
• Song Title Usage 35
• Journalism Usage 35
• Bibliographic Usage 35
• Encyclopedic Usage 49
• Lexicographic Usage 51
• Index 61