Orts #982
Consider every moment, since the dawn of woman, when a female aspired but to no avail. She asked to attend school but was denied. She raised her hand but wasn’t called on. She applied but wasn’t hired. She enlisted but wasn’t deployed. She created but wasn’t credited. She ran but wasn’t elected.
-- Sarah Smarsh, in the New York Times, March 6, 2020
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/06/opinion/elizabeth-warren-women-president.html
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According to Greek mythology, the prophet Tiresias was harassing a pair of mating snakes when Hera decided to transform him into a woman as “punishment.” After he had lived in this form for seven years, she changed him back. Later, when asked by Hera and Zeus to settle an argument over which sex has the most pleasure in intercourse (Hera thought men; Zeus said women), Tiresias replied, Women. Definitely women. For this impertinence, Hera struck him blind.
Clitoris comes from the Greek kleitoris, which has been translated as both “little hill” and “to rub,” suggesting an ancient play on words.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-clitoris-uncovered-an-intimate-history/
Invention...does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.
-- Mary Shelley (1797–1851), in the preface to the 1831 edition of Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus