How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
She was gone, she was not, and she was born: a woman. (12.147)
Mellors is so good at sex that he can actually restore Connie's femininity. He turns her from a kind ofobnoxious modern girl into a soft, melting, womanly puddle. That he can then walk all over.
Quote #8
"But they're mostly the Lesbian sort. It's astonishing how Lesbian women are, consciously or unconsciously. Seems to me they're nearly all Lesbian." (14.111)
Translation: "Dude, I gave that chick my number but she turned me down. She's so totally a lesbian."
Quote #9
Connie flushed darker with rage, at the suggestion. Yet, while her passion was on her, she could not lie. She could not even pretend there was nothing between herself and the keeper. She looked at the other woman, who stood so sly, with her head dropped: yet somehow, in her femaleness, an ally. (16.23)
Connie is an aristocrat, but she has more in common with Mrs. Bolton for being a woman than she does with Clifford, who's one of her class. That's a big "no duh" for us, but actually for centuries—up until about the 17th and 18th centuries—the big difference was class rather than gender. Women weren't considered fundamentally different from men; they were just defective men.