Literary notes about woman (AI summary)
The word “woman” appears in literature as a multifaceted term that simultaneously reflects societal roles, inherent stereotypes, and cultural shifts. In some texts the term becomes a battleground for rights and political identity, as seen in discussions of suffrage and responsibility in works like [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], and [6]. In other narratives “woman” invokes domesticity and tradition—such as the recurring image of a pie-baking figure in [7] or the nurturing yet complex mother figure in [8] and [9]. Meanwhile, literary portrayals can also embody deeper critiques of gender roles and objectification, evident in both the mythic allusions of biblical texts [10, 11] and in more satirical treatments that question a woman's influence or independence [12], [13], [14]. Together, these examples demonstrate that “woman” is a loaded term in literature, enriched by historical debates, cultural functions, and nuanced character studies.
- William Henry Channing asks the following questions in the Albany Evening Journal : WOMAN'S RIGHTS.
— from History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I - Now I assert that it is chargeable upon woman herself; and that as she was first in man's original transgression, she is first here.
— from History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I - We hope, therefore, that every woman in the State will sign her name to the petitions.
— from History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I - No writer of the present age, perhaps, has done more to exalt woman than she has by her powerful essays.
— from History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I - Woman has never been consulted; her wish has never been taken into consideration as regards the terms of the marriage compact.
— from History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I - In the third place, woman is entitled to vote, because she is liable to all the penalties imposed by government.
— from History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I - I tell you, a woman 'ull bake you a pie every week of her life and never come to see that the hotter th' oven the shorter the time.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot - With a motherly tenderness the gaunt woman put her arm round her mistress and led her from the room.
— from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle - The mother, a pleasant-faced woman, was cheerful, even light-hearted.
— from How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. Riis - Genesis 3:2-3. 16-15: "The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda - And behold a woman that was in the city, a sinner, when she knew that he sat at meat in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster box of ointment.
— from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete - If that woman does get out, and tries to get away, I can tie her!
— from The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman - "I'll be glad to get away," said Tip, softly; "for I never did like that old woman.
— from The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum - ‘Silence, woman!’ said Mr. Kenwigs, fiercely.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
