Very few adult people have done all the dirty things they'd like to have done. The ones I've seen are chock-a-block with regret for the lives they haven't led, the sheilas they haven't raped, the tills they haven't robbed, the murders they haven't done, the sex they haven't had. David Ireland, The Chantic Bird, 1968 [On the women of Victoria]Women, all the world over, are entitled to everything that chivalry can give them. They should …showed first 75 words of 940 total…

…showed last 75 words of 940 total…and looks in her cell at night to see she's all right. If she gets so far as to be hanged, a male hangman puts the rope round her neck; she is buried by a male gravedigger; and she goes to Heaven ruled over by a male God or a hell managed by a male devil. Isn't it a wonder men didn't make the devil a woman? Louisa Lawson, interview with AG Stephens, Bulletin, 24 October 1896