... a girl who know her pigs would never want for a husband. (W)
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'I must say,’ he said, ‘you’re a real brick.’
‘You mean pink, square and dumpy? You really know how to talk to a girl, my boy.' (M) Not for the first time she reflected that there were many drawbacks to being a swordswoman, not least of which was that men didn’t take you seriously until you’d actually killed them, by which time it didn’t really matter anyway. (LF)
A woman always has half an onion left over, no matter what the size of the onion, the dish or the woman. (MR)
At his club a gentleman could find the kind of food he’d got used to at school, like spotted dick, jam roly-poly and the perennial favourite, stodge and custard. Vitamins are eaten by wives. (TOT)
... Miss Butts sincerely believed that there were no basic differences between boys and gels.
At least, none worth talking about. (SM) The Archchancellor was not the kind of man who takes a special pleasure in being brusque and rude to women.
Or, to put it another way, he was brusque and rude to absolutely everyone, regardless of sex, which was an equality of a sort. (RM) Miss Eulalie Butts and her colleague, Miss Delcross, had founded the college on the astonishing idea that, since gels had nothing much to do until someone married them, they might as well occupy themselves with learning things, (SM)
Vimes had once discussed the Ephebian idea of ‘democracy’ with Carrot and had been rather interested in the idea that everyone* had a vote until he found out that while he, Vimes, would have a vote, there was no way in the rules that
anyone could prevent Nobby Nobbs from having one as well. Vimes could see the flaw there straight away. *Apart from the women, children, slaves, idiots and people who weren’t really our kind of people (FE) He’d tried to introduce Ephebian democracy to Lancre, giving the vote to everyone, or at least everyone “who be of good report and who be male and hath forty years and owneth a hosue worth more than three and a half goats a year,” because there’s no sense in being stupid about things and giving the vote to people who were poor or criminal or insane or female, who’d only use it irresponsibly. (LL)
The Ephebians believed that every man should have the vote.*
*Provided that he wasn’t poor, foreign nor disqualified by reason of being mad, frivolous or a woman. (SG) There is a type of girl who, while incapable of cleaning her bedroom even at knifepoint, will fight for the privilege of being allowed to spend the day shoveling manure in a stable. (SM)
Agnes was, Nanny considered, quite good-looking in an expansive kind of way; she was a fine figure of typical Lancre womanhood. This meant she was approximately two womanhoods from anywhere else. (Ma)
The students were staring at her in the manner of those who have heard of the species ‘female’ but have never expected to get this close to one. (SM)
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