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"Hermaphroditic" Quotes from Famous Books

... follows the female portion of the book: for, to resemble marriage perfectly, it ought to be more or less hermaphroditic. ...

— Petty Troubles of Married Life, Second Part • Honore de Balzac

... have found pleasure in such a circle of parasites. But Christophe had no taste for pedestals. He was revolted by the idiotic subtlety of his admirers, who read into anything he did all sorts of absurd meanings, Renanian, Nietzschean, hermaphroditic. He kicked them out. He was not made for passivity. Everything in him cried aloud for action. He observed so as to understand: he wished to understand so as to act. He was free of the constraint of any school, and of any prejudice, and he inquired into everything, read everything, ...

— Jean Christophe: In Paris - The Market-Place, Antoinette, The House • Romain Rolland

... inferiority by making her a man. There may be some subtle physiological basis for such views—some strange quality of brain; for some who hold and advocate them are of those, who, having missed the symmetry and organic balance that harmonious development yields, have drifted into an hermaphroditic condition. One of this class, who was glad to have escaped the chains of matrimony, but knew the value and lamented the loss of maternity, wished she had been born a widow with two children. These misconceptions arise from mistaking difference of organization and function for difference ...

— Sex in Education - or, A Fair Chance for Girls • Edward H. Clarke

... varying moods. In one respect they puzzled me—they were of conflicting genders, some feminine and some masculine, as if in Leavitt's loose-frayed imagination the mountain that beguiled his days and disturbed his nights were hermaphroditic. ...

— O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 • Various

... Lakalatcha's varying moods. In one respect they puzzled me—they were of conflicting genders, some feminine and some masculine, as if in Leavitt's loose-frayed imagination the mountain that beguiled his days and disturbed his nights were hermaphroditic. ...

— The Best Short Stories of 1920 - and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various