unsex

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Lady Macbeth has no such qualms when she’s summoning evil spirits to unsex her in “Macbeth.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 17, 2026

Going from unisex to unsex, The Lodge At Harvard Square, with 17 New England outlets, sells its women customers huge quantities of old-fashioned men's chino pants, whose seats rapidly become modishly baggy on distaff derri�res.

From Time Magazine Archive

That appalling invocation to the spirits of evil, to unsex her and fill her from the crown to the toe topfull of direst cruelty, tells the same tale of determination to crush the inward protest.

From Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by Bradley, A. C. (Andrew Cecil)

Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full Of direst cruelty!”

From Folk-lore of Shakespeare by Thiselton-Dyer, Thomas Firminger

Gentlemen, we ask nothing that would unsex ourselves.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady