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  • Thus certain features of the face announce peculiarities of nature, inclinations, and instincts even to the vulgar; the physiologist, with his more special knowledge, discovers quite a series of concealed revelations in the innermost recesses of that pretty sphinx which constitutes God's masterpiece, and which we call woman.

    French and Oriental Love in a Harem Mario Uchard

  • This strange young man was holding up to his view a perfectly strange anomaly which he called a woman.

    Bambi Marjorie Benton Cooke 1898

  • Much of twentieth-century English literature comes, not surprisingly, from products of these half-military, half-monastic institutions (not least because self-discipline and getting things done are part of what they impart), and the result is a grand corpus of books written by men who seem at once fascinated and unsettled by that mysterious other known as woman.

    The Knight of Sunset Boulevard Iyer, Pico 2007

  • I want sex, I want the use of a vagina, and I really dislike the idea of having to deal with that pesky thing surrounding a vagina that we call a woman.

    When it comes to reproduction, men and women really ARE different 2005

  • Park, who was born male, answered "I identify as a woman."

    "They encircled me in a very menacing and hostile stance." Ann Althouse 2005

  • She had exchanged phone numbers with Estelle Johnson, and as soon as she got home, she called the woman.

    Lawman Lover Dawson, Saranne 1999

  • This explains support of "herstory" or "` wim-min," terms that finesse etymology to emphasize the male-orientation of conventional history and to eliminate the man in the word woman.

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XV No 2 1984

  • Whatever the reason why this topic hasn't been explored, it's an excellent topic that when you do dive into it it can provide very fun insight and amusement into the creature that we call the woman. "

    Christine O'Donnell explains dating history using 'Lord of the Rings' 2010

  • Yes, she graduated froma 6th grade bully to trash talker to a con and I can't even use the word woman.

    Palin: 'Absolutely' more policy speeches to come 2010

  • Any woman who would throw away Roe v Wade by voting for McCain out of spite, is not worthy of being called a woman.

    McCain team reaches out to disappointed Clinton backers 2008

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