No one goes to the toilet in novels. You'd think none of us had bladders. - Germaine Greer

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.

The stereotype is the Eternal Feminine. She is the Sexual Object sought by all men, and by all woman. She is of neither sex, for she has herself no sex at all. Her value is solely attested by the demand she excites in others.

The patterns of gratification are simple, and seem to fall into two patterns, the Great Bitch and the Poison Maiden.