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  • For one, she is after all a woman, and we should applaud her in the name of all woman-kind who have been historically and quite systematically oppressed since time immemorial.

    Khanh Ho: Words of Advice to Young People: The Case of Stephanie Grace 2010

  • Strive to wish well to ALL your fellow man and woman-kind.

    Blitzer: Obama says Kennedy news was 'heartbreaking' 2008

  • He is blamed for someone's death and set to be put to death himself; his wife rides out and ransoms him, and it ends with him saying, "The fairest flower o woman-kind/Is my sweet bonie lady."

    water song asakiyume 2008

  • It's strange how man/woman-kind can be subverted to think something is true when it is not actually as stated.

    Stopping the lights going out. Glyn Davies 2008

  • How welcome is a couplet or two, in scorn of woman-kind, to such a disappointed lover; and with what comfort he reads, in many profound authors, that they are never to be pleased but by coxcombs; and, consequently, he owes his ill success to the brightness of his understanding, which is beyond female comprehension.

    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and Lady Lisa Robertson Lemon Hound 2008

  • Gudrun had a daughter by Sigurd hight Swanhild; she was the fairest of all women, eager-eyed as her father, so that few durst look under the brows of her; and as far did she excel other woman-kind as the sun excels the other lights of heaven.

    The Story of the Volsungs 2008

  • How welcome is a couplet or two, in scorn of woman-kind, to such a disappointed lover; and with what comfort he reads, in many profound authors, that they are never to be pleased but by coxcombs; and, consequently, he owes his ill success to the brightness of his understanding, which is beyond female comprehension.

    Archive 2008-08-01 Lemon Hound 2008

  • So she proposes the construction of a woman-kind that is defined in its own terms, not simply by opposition to men.

    Feminist Metaphysics Haslanger, Sally 2007

  • My dear sir, how little you know man — or woman-kind, if you fancy they will take that sort of warning!

    Roundabout Papers 2006

  • I, for my part, know a few female dragons, de par le monde, and, as I watch them and remember what they were, admire the softening influence of years upon these whilom destroyers of man — and woman-kind.

    The Virginians 2006

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