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Society ought to place woman, as a human being and as a creatress of men—more worthy therefore of love and respect—in a better juridical and ethical situation than she enjoys at present.

From Socialism and Modern Science (Darwin, Spencer, Marx) by La Monte, Robert Rives

But she herself was only an example, exaggerated in the genial fashion of her creatress, of the proper and recognised standard of feminine feeling in and long before her time.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 by Saintsbury, George

Mama, Mami.—Names of "the lady of the gods," and creatress of the seed of mankind, Aruru.

From The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Pinches, Theophilus Goldridge

She has religiously fulfilled her duty as a good creatress; and from this duty done there result only tribulation and sorrow.

From The Life of the Bee by Sutro, Alfred

It has been said from the very first that she is, as Delphine had been, if not what her creatress was, what she would have liked to be.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by Saintsbury, George