"The women say that you look very mannish."

"Mannish?" said I. "What do they mean by that?"

"They mean that you are shy and timid like men."

From Bengali writer Rokheya Shekhawat Hossain's excerpt in the Vandermeer's Big Book of SF - a feminist utopian short story called "Sultana's Dream."

Les baobabs! "C'est toujours une catastrophe."

"At times it would tear out whole chapters from books. / Or put roomfuls of pictures askew on their hooks."