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“Penthesilea, for example, fought against Achilles himself…” “And died!” “Against Achilles – everyone died against Achilles, it was his predominant characteristic.”
― Claire North, Ithaca

“And so here she was, a girl of barely fifteen, adrift in a sea of men.”
― Claire Heywood, Daughters of Sparta

“It is not that female characters in the modern novel are characterizations of bad or limited people—although, incidentally, they almost always are—but that they are badly drawn, because the writers flatly refuse to apply the same complex of literary artifice in their character realizations to both males and females—out of habits that begin as a response to some terror that human individuation would make the female characters equal to the males.”
― Samuel R. Delany, Hogg

“It is the novelist’s duty to attack society, for its false complacency, for its repressive rigidity, and for its self-righteous insensitivity. Society is women. Therefore, the novelist must attack and punish women in his works.”
― Samuel R. Delany, Hogg