„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

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„One must wait till it comes.“
— Arthur Conan Doyle
„So raise your glass if you are wrong in all the right ways,All my underdogs.We will never be, never be anything but loudAnd "Nitty-Gritty",Dirty little freaks.Won't you come and come andRaise your glass!Just come on and come on andRaise your glass.“
— Pink (singer)
„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