Ballad of the Sad Cafe and Other Stories Women and Femininity Quotes

If a patient came with a female complaint she could do nothing. (Ballad.53)

[...] she would stand there craning her neck against the collar of her shirt, or rubbing her swamp boots together, for all the world like a great, shamed, dumb-tongued child. (Ballad.53)

Now, of course, Miss Amelia was a powerful blunderbuss of a person, more than six feet tall—and Cousin Lymon a weakly little hunchback reaching only to her waist. (Ballad.79)