I'm usually a very strong woman, but I'm awfully tired ''.

One is so accustomed to think of men as the privileged who need but ask and receive, and women as submissive and yielding, that our sympathies are usually enlisted on the side of the man whose love is not returned, and we condemn the woman as a coquette.

usually, this is most exasperating to men, who expect every woman to verify their preconceived notions concerning her sex, and when she does not, immediately condemn her as eccentric and unwomanly.

Moreover, the physical changes occurred to the breasts usually are recorded in the stretch marks of the skin envelope ; they are historical indicators of the increments and the decrements of the size and the volume of a woman ’ s breasts throughout the course of her life.

The banshee ( ), from the Irish bean sí (" woman of the sídhe " or " woman of the fairy mounds ") is a feminine spirit in Irish mythology, usually seen as an omen of death and a messenger from the Otherworld.

It was probably in Rome that Catullus fell deeply in love with the " Lesbia " of his poems, who is usually identified with Clodia Metelli, a sophisticated woman from the aristocratic house of patrician family Claudii Pulchri and sister of the infamous Publius Clodius Pulcher.

The role of midwife is usually played by a female deity, like the spider woman of Native American mythology.

It is generally performed by a traditional circumciser, usually an older woman known as a " gedda ," without anaesthesia or sterile equipment, though richer families may pay instead for the services of a nurse, midwife, or doctor using a local anaesthetic.

* The Haystack: A male cast member and a woman ( usually one of the Hee Haw Honeys ) talk about love issues while sitting at the haystack ( the skits began with just the top of the haystack on camera and then panned down to reveal the couple ).

When Prometheus decides to steal the secret of fire from the gods, Zeus becomes infuriated and decides to punish humankind with an " evil thing for their delight " — Pandora, the first woman, who carried a jar ( usually described — incorrectly — as a box ) she was told to never open.

She, and usually another elderly woman in the village help during and after the delivery.

Davis appeared in 11 feature films, usually typecast as a " loyal housewife ", " responsible young mother ", or " the steady woman ".

Polygyny is the most common form of polygamy ; the much rarer practice of polyandry is the form of marriage in which one woman has two or more husbands at the same time, usually among brothers or males of the same family.

A young woman who is unwed due to social status is usually referred to as meretrix or “ courtesan .” A lena, or adoptive mother, may be a woman who owns these girls.

The basic plot of a romantic comedy is that two characters, usually a man and a woman, meet, part ways due to an argument or other obstacle, then ultimately reunite.

Copulation, although usually used to describe the mating process of non-human animals, is defined as " the transfer of the sperm from male to female " or " the act of sexual procreation between a man and a woman ".

In folklore traced back to medieval legend, a succubus ( plural succubi ) is a female demon or supernatural being appearing in dreams, who takes the form of a human woman in order to seduce men, usually through sexual intercourse.

Traditionally the couple does not inherit from each other, the man usually is not responsible for the economic welfare of the woman, and she usually may leave her home at her own discretion.

* If it was an abortion, usually measured after three months in a pregnancy, the woman may pay 1 / 10 of the blood money to charity or face imprisonment ( not qisas ).

Responsibility for Hestia's domestic cult usually fell to the leading woman of the household, sometimes to a man.

The cortigiane oneste were usually well-educated and worldly ( sometimes even more so than the average upper-class woman ), and often held simultaneous careers as performers or artists.

Over the years, a " woman in black " carrying a red rose has come to mourn at Valentino's grave, usually on the anniversary of his death.

She had offered to walk, but Pamela knew she would not feel comfortable about her child until she had personally confided her to the care of the little pink woman who chose to be called `` Auntie ''.

The phrase, `` emotional death '', interesting and, to a non-scientific mind, rather touching, suggests that this woman may have some flair for words, perhaps even something of the temperament regrettably called `` creative ''.

But when he called for his withered, wrinkled sister Rose to care for him and the children, had he guessed that all he would remember of his woman was the memory of her climbing into that streetcar??

He married a woman called Eurydice and had a son Alexander.

The tales sometimes recounted that the woman, though called a fairy, was a ghost, often of a specific murdered woman, or a mother who died in childbirth.

After marriage, a third form of chastity, often called " vidual chastity ", is expected of a woman while she is in mourning for her late husband.

She was at one time called the " most dangerous woman in America ," due to her free-love idealism and outspoken nature.

A few days later, the firemen are called in to burn down the house of an old woman who has been hoarding books.

On the coming of his age, Gregory married a woman called Miriam a devout Christian who was the daughter of a Christian Armenian Prince in Cappadocia.

Valiente's identification was based on references Gardner made to a woman he called " Old Dorothy " which Valiente remembered.

According to its first translator, it was written in Wroxeter by a Christian man called Vinisius to a Christian woman called Nigra, and was claimed as the first epigraphic record of Christianity in Britain.

Women interested in Yaoi are called " Fujoshi " ( 腐女子 ), a pun which translate loosely as " rotten girl " or " rotten woman ".

Delayed Keres Attack Perenyi Gambit ( B90 ) · 1 – 0 Former trainer for the Polgárs, IM Tibor Károlyi, called this the most beautiful game ever played by a woman.

Sacagawea, sometimes called Sakajawea or Sakagawea ( c. 1788 – December 20, 1812 ), was an indigenous woman who accompanied her husband Toussaint Charbonneau on the expedition to the Pacific Ocean.

Penetration was the focus of concern in all sexual acts, and a woman who was thought to have uncontrollable desires because of her engorged clitoris was called a " tribade " ( literally, one who rubs ).

Looking for revenge, Mac Cinnfhaelaidh calls on a leanan sídhe ( fairy woman ) called Biróg, who transports him by magic to the top of Balor's tower, where he seduces Eithne.

Enthroned on a daïs, he directed a beautiful woman called the Sovereignty of Ireland to serve Conn a portion of meat and a cup of red ale, ritually confirming his right to rule and the dynasty that would follow him.

In the animated television series The Mysterious Cities of Gold, which chronicles the adventures of a Spanish boy and his companions traveling throughout South America in 1532 to seek the lost city of El Dorado, a woman called " Marinche " becomes a dangerous adversary.

Midwives are called vroedvrouw ( knowledge woman, female midwives ), vroedmeester ( knowledge master, male midwives ), or verloskundige ( deliverance experts, general ) in Dutch.

While the highlight of the film was undoubtedly Dhak Dhak Karne Laga-probably the sexiest and most popular dance of Madhuri's career, her blazing performance-that of a woman married to an illiterate, well-meaning man and who exposes her scheming mother-in-law whom her husband dotes on-had film reviewers gushing with several people jokingly saying the film should have been called Beti instead!

Some meteorites have informal nicknames: the Sylacauga meteorite is sometimes called the " Hodges meteorite " after Ann Hodges, the woman who was struck by it ; the Canyon Diablo meteorite, which formed Meteor Crater has dozens of these aliases.

The meaning of Maggieknockater is " field of the fuller " or " plain of the hilly ridge " and has nothing to do with a woman called Maggie.

The first known book on cards called Yezi Gexi was allegedly written by a Tang era woman, and was commented on by Chinese writers of subsequent dynasties.