Vagina Dentata Quotes

“I once typed 'vagina dentata' into dictionary.com and it asked me, 'Did you mean giant anteater?”
― Juliet Cook

“The storyless story is a vagina with teeth.”
― Scarlett Thomas, Our Tragic Universe

“What bothers me most about my teeth is that they don’t travel loin south, don’t sprout from the Mother Mouth. Vagina dentata, come closah, say high.”
― Virginia Petrucci

“But as the 20th century dawned, Freudian psychology promoted the regressive notion that women suffer an intrinsic deficiency resulting in “penis envy.” Freud wrote that the “depreciation of women, horror of women, and a disposition to homosexuality are derived from the final conviction that women have no penis.” In his view, Medusa's face represents a “vagina dentata”—a hideous toothed vagina—surrounded by the writhing phalluses of castrated men.”
― Joan Marler, Re-visioning Medusa: from Monster to Divine Wisdom

“He never got a really proper look at them, but the situation told him it must be a swarming flock of vaginas that flew all around his head, biting him toothlessly on his ears and his cheeks and his neck.”
― Chris Adrian, The Great Night