‘The truth of the fetish resides in its status as a material embodiment’ (William Pietz)

“I have never allowed a gentleman to dictate anything to me or to interfere with anything I do” (James 40)

‘In the Comedies, Shakespeare seems, if not a feminist, then at least a man who takes the woman’s part’ (Bamber 2)

‘Therefore I lie with her, and she with me, / And in our faults by lies we flattered be’ (Shakespeare, Sonnet 138, lines 13-14)

‘[W]hen you wash your hands, do you feel the water is running on your brain? Of course not’ (Tiptree 50)

“Am I master here, or you? … God shall mend my soul!” (Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, 1.5.77-79)

‘Oh, tourist,/ is this how this country is going to answer you/and your immodest demands for a different world’ (Bishop 89)

‘There stern religion quenched the unwilling flame, / There died the best of passions, Love and Fame’ (Pope 39-40)

‘Thurgh noyse and swetnesse of hir song’ (Chaucer 297)

‘One drear word comprised my intolerable duty – “Depart!”’ (Bronte 279)

‘How serious can it be if it happens all the time?’ (DeLillo 201)