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

Shall she return To vex our souls, unsex our wives and daughters, And spoil our pictures as she did of old?

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, January 21, 1893 by Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), Sir

Gentlemen, we ask nothing that would unsex ourselves.

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

Beat purer, heart, and higher, Till God unsex thee on the heavenly shore Where unincarnate spirits purely aspire!

From Frederick Chopin, as a Man and Musician — Complete by Niecks, Frederick