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1 " He wanted to make cast models of her. He wanted to take a set of precision calipers and measure every distance between her features. He wanted her blood and glandular fluids analyzed by the finest chemists in the world—there must be something detectibly different in her inner workings for him to respond so dramatically, as if he’d been given a drug for which science had yet to find a name.But more than anything, he wanted to— "
― Sherry Thomas , Beguiling the Beauty (Fitzhugh Trilogy, #1)
2 " If she is efficient and capable or ambitious, it is assumed that she has failed to find satisfaction as a normal woman, even to the extent of implying a glandular abnormality or sexual perversion. "
― Germaine Greer , The Female Eunuch
3 " A disruption of the circadian cycle—the metabolic and glandular rhythms that are central to our workaday life—seems to be involved in many, if not most, cases of depression; this is why brutal insomnia so often occurs and is most likely why each day’s pattern of distress exhibits fairly predictable alternating periods of intensity and relief. "
― William Styron , Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
4 " I sat in the gradually chilling room, thinking of my whole past the way a drowning man is supposed to, and it seemed part of the present, part of the gray cold and the beggar woman without a face and the moulting birds frozen to their own filth in the Orangerie. I know now I was in the throes of some small glandular crisis, a sublimated bilious attack, a flick from the whip of melancholia, but then it was terrifying...nameless.... "
― M.F.K. Fisher , The Art of Eating
5 " {...]I began to feel tears of frustration build up in my eyes, yearning to free themselves from their glandular prisons. "
― , Twenty in Paris: A Young American Perspective of Studying Abroad in Paris
