Gender

Quote

Character

Act/Scene

“You should be women, / And yet your beards forbid me to interpret / That you are so.”

Macbeth

Act 1, Scene 3

“My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, / Shakes so my single state of man”

Macbeth

Act 1, Scene 3

“Come, you spirits / That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here”

Lady Macbeth

Act 1, Scene 5

“Fill me from the crown to the toe top-full / Of direst cruelty. Make thick my blood. / Stop up th’ access and passage to remorse, / That no compunctious visitings of nature / Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between / Th’ effect and it.”

Lady Macbeth

Act 1, Scene 5

“Come to my woman’s breasts, / And take my milk for gall, you murd’ring ministers”

Lady Macbeth

Act 1, Scene 5

“Come, thick night, / And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, / That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, / Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, / To cry "Hold, hold!”

Lady Macbeth

Act 1, Scene 5

“I have given such, and know / How tender ’tis to love the babe that milks me. / I would, while it was smiling in my face, / Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums / And dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you have done to this.”

Lady Macbeth

Act 1, Scene 7

“O gentle lady, / ’Tis not for you to hear what I can speak. / The repetition in a woman’s ear / Would murder as it fell.”

Macduff

Act 2, Scene 3

“Are you a man?”

Lady Macbeth

Act 3, Scene 4