„When did you become a shivering old woman,” Okonkwo asked himself, “you, who are known in all the nine villages for your valor in war? How can a man who has killed five men in battle fall to pieces because he has added a boy to their number? Okonkwo, you have become a woman indeed.“

— Chinua Achebe

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„And when, as on that day, nine of the greatest masked spirits in the clan came out together it was a terrifying spectacle.Okonkwo's wives, and perhaps other women as well, might have noticed that the second egwugwu had the springy walk of Okonkwo. And they might also have noticed that Okonkwo was not among the titled men and elders who sat behind the row of egwugwu. But if they thought these things they kept them to themselves. The egwugwu with the springy walk was one of the dead fathers of the clan.“
— Chinua Achebe
„I thought you could write something about me that men can't – What I want written – I do not know – I have no definite idea of what it should be. – but a woman who has lived many things and who sees lines and colors as an expression of living – might say something that a man can't – I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore – Men have done all they can do about it. Does that mean anything to you – or doesn't it?“
— Georgia O'Keeffe
„A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.“
— Winston S. Churchill
„Ho, pretty page, with the dimpled chinThat never has known the barber’s shear,All your wish is woman to win,This is the way that boys begin.Wait till you come to Forty Year.“
— William Makepeace Thackeray