Today another woman has courageously come forward to accuse Donald Trump. ibid.
If I know anything about women, I’d say she’s too clever by half. The Blue Parrot 1953 starring John Le Mesurier & Dermot Walsh & Jacqueline Hill & Ballard Barkeley & June Ashley & Richard Pearson & Ferdy Mayne & Victor Lucas & Edwin Richfield & Arthur Rigby & Valerie White & Diane Watts et al, director John Harlow, rozzer to rozzer
100 years since the first women got the right to vote we’re still taking to the streets demanding to be treated equally. Have we really made so little progress? … In the aftermath of shocking equal pay revelations, the Weinstein sexual harassment scandal and the protest movements that followed. The Trouble with Women with Anne Robinson, BBC 2018
If he wanted advice on women he should’ve come to me … Women are like cars, right: they go rusty if you don’t keep them you know what I mean, polished, well oiled, looked after. Between the Canals 2012 starring Peter Coonan & Dan Hyland & Stephen Jones & Damien Dempsey & Anne Marie Marten & Kenneth Meehan & Mary O’Toole et al, director Mark O’Connor
A woman is pure, delicate, fragile. Woman is supreme. Woman is magic. Shoot the Piano Player 1960 starring Charles Aznavour & Marie Dubois & Nicole Berger & Michele Mercier & Serge Davri & Claude Mansard & Richard Kanayan & Albert Remy & Jean-Jacques Aslanian et al, director Francois Truffaut, Plyne
‘We had Twiggy the same year women got the pill, suddenly a kind of anorexic sexless ideal … ’ Naomi Wolf, interview Abby Martin, Virgina 101, Youtube & RT 11.50
‘Woman’ was the test, but not every woman seemed to qualify. Black women, of course, were virtually invisible within the protracted campaign for woman’s suffrage. As for white working-class women, the suffrage leaders were probably impressed at first by the organizing efforts and militancy of their working-class sisters. But as it turned out, the working women themselves did not enthusiastically embrace the cause of woman’s suffrage. Angela Davis, ‘Women, Race & Class’, 1983
Images of everything from margarine to marriage were carefully confected myths, persuading women to be perfect beings. 21st Century Mythologies with Richard Clay, BBC 2020
The Covid pandemic is highlighting shocking patterns, revealing how this disease attacks men and women differently … ‘Men have about a 40% higher chance of dying compared to women’ … What I discover is that even though women generally outlive men, there is dangerous gender gap in the data and the way women are treated. I learn how biases in diagnoses can be life threatening. So when it comes to our health, how much does sex matter? Are Women the Fitter Sex? Channel 4 2021
In England, men account for 60% of all [Covid-19] deaths. ibid.
‘Women tend to generate greater immune responses to viruses than men do.’ ibid. Professor Klein
Females may have a biological advantage when it comes to many cancers and diseases. ibid.
Women tend to have more body fat than men where medicines can accumulate and linger; their kidneys are also smaller … Women metabolise drugs differently. ibid.
Even now in the UK including females in clinical trials isn’t a legal requirement. ibid.
Both Unionists and Republicans would take advantage of another political force that emerged for the first time in 1918: Women. They had become more politically engaged before the war, and were voting now for the first time. They included the members of the Ulster Women’s Unionist Council. The Road to Partition s1e1, BBC 2021
It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make an help meet for him. Genesis 2:18
And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam; and he slept; and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman. Genesis 2:21
This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of man.
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they shall be one flesh. Genesis 2:23&24
Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiple thy sorrow and conception. Genesis 3:16, God to Eve
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a woman have conceived seed, and born a man child: then she shall be unclean seven days; according to the days of the separation for her infirmity shall she be unclean.
And she shall then continue in the blood of her purifying three and thirty days; she shall touch no hallowed thing, nor come into the sanctuary, until the days of her purifying be fulfilled.
But if she bear a maid child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her separation: and she shall continue in the blood of her purifying threescore and six days.
And when the days of her purifying are fulfilled, for a son, or for a daughter, she shall bring a lamb of the first year for a burnt offering, and a young pigeon, or dove, for a sin offering, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, unto the priest: Leviticus 12:2&4-6
And if a woman have an issue, and her issue in her flesh be blood, she shall be put apart seven days: and whosoever toucheth her shall be unclean until the even. Leviticus 15:19
For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. Her feet goeth down to death; he steps take hold on hell. Proverbs 5:3
To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adultress will hunt for the precious life. Proverbs 6:24-26
A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband. Proverbs 12:4
It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.
It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman. Proverbs 21:9&19
The mouth of a strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the Lord shall fall therein. Proverbs 22:14
Who can find a virtuous woman? For her price is above rubies. Proverbs 31:10
And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach. Isaiah 4:1
Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones: strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins.
They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine. Isaiah 32:11&12
By this also ye must know that women have dominion over you: do ye not labour and toil, and give and bring all to the woman?
Many also have perished, have erred, and sinned, for women.
O ye men, how can it be but women should be strong, seeing they do thus? I Esdras 4:22&27&32
Be not jealous over the wife of thy bosom, and teach her not an evil lesson against thyself.
Give not thy soul unto a woman to set her foot upon thy substance.
Gaze not on a maid, that thou fall not by those things that are precious in her.
Give not thy soul unto harlots, that thou lose not thine inheritance.
Turn away thine eye from a beautiful woman, and look not upon another’s beauty; for many have been deceived by the beauty of a woman; for herewith love is kindled as a fire.
Sit not at all with another man’s wife, nor sit down with her in thine arms, and spend not thy money with her at the wine; lest thine heart incline unto her, and so through thy desire thou fall into destruction. Sirach/Ecclesiasticus 9:1&2&5&6&8&9
Woman, what have I to do with thee? Mine hour is not yet come. John 2:4
Woman, behold thy son! John 19:26