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Twas when the seas were roaring With hollow blasts of wind, A damsel lay deploring, All on a rock reclined.
John Gay
I don't damsel well. Distress, I can do. Damseling? Not so much.
James Patterson
Well maybe the princess shouldn't be a damsel and she could save herself.
Anita Sarkeesian
I put out an ad in the classifieds: ‘Wanted, superhero. I'm a damsel in distress'.
Michelle Trachtenberg
It looks as if you need only enter the field for long enough to recognise the bannus and take hold of it. Then you order it to stop." "Fight my way through a mob of dancing girls and snatch the dulcimer off the leading damsel," Reigner Two said morbidly. "I can just see myself. I think the fools who invented this thing might have thought of a simpler way to stop it. What's wrong with a red switch?
Diana Wynne Jones
Going to spring break at Ft. Lauderdale, getting drunk and flashing your breasts isn't an act of personal empowerment. It's you, so fashioned and programmed by the construct of a patriarchal society that you no longer know what's best for yourself. A damsel too dumb to know she is even in distress.
Chuck Palahniuk
The only thing true about what you just said was the storybook damsel part - and that only because you're pretty enough to be one.
Richelle Mead
What innocence, may I ask, is being played here when it is known that this virtuous damsel has already got a dozen illegitimate children?
Nikita Khrushchev
The unicorn, through its intemperance and not knowing how to control itself, for the love it bears to fair maidens forgets its ferocity and wildness; and laying aside all fear it will go up to a seated damsel and go to sleep in her lap, and thus the hunters take it.
Leonardo da Vinci
Fair are the daughters of men, and fairest are those who read. Is there any creature more desirable than a damsel in intellectual distress?
James K. Morrow
Princess Peach is in many ways the quintessential stock-character version of the damsel in distress.
Anita Sarkeesian
Since mobile, indie and retro inspired games are built on a legacy of inequality in the medium the new wave of 80s and 90s nostalgia has brought with it a resurrection of the worst of the old-school damsel in distress stereotypes. Indeed, many of these new titles essentially function as love letters to the trope as a way of paying homage to classic games of years gone by.
Anita Sarkeesian
I think that young women and little girls need to see that they don't have to be the damsel in distress. They don't have to not show their strength. They don't have to be whatever the stereotype is or the tropes that we go to in our minds.
Octavia Spencer
When I look around the world, I don't see too many damsels in distress. If they're a damsel in distress, they're manipulating some guy to help them.
Sigourney Weaver
I don't do damsel in distress very well. It's hard for me to play a victim.
Scarlett Johansson
I just don't want to be the damsel in distress. I'll scream on the balcony, but you've got to let me do a little action here.
Kirsten Dunst
A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Finally she faltered; Saw at last, forsooth, Every gaudy color Is a bit of truth. Then the gates were opened; Miracles were seen; That instructed damsel Donned a gown of green;Wore it in a churchyard, All arrayed with care; And a painted rainbow Shone above her there.
Nathalia Crane