I would unsex myself and be a squirrel, say, or a turtle.

As the words "Unsex me here" came from the robot, her (or its) shape began to change.

Come, ye spirits of the air, unsex me now!

The Unsex'd Female is complicated, however, by the tumultuous political situation at the time of its publication.

That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,

The Unsex'd Females, however, was a salvo in a propaganda war that the participants took extremely seriously.

He felt that everyone disapproved of Scarlett and was contemptuous of him for permitting her to unsex herself.

Unsex yourself.

Unsex me here And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full Of direst cruelty!

She actually asks spirits to "unsex" her and "take [her] milk for gall."

Unsex'd Revolutionaries: Five Women Novelists of the 1790s.

(When Norris asks the ether to "unsex" her, it's as if she's pleading for a tranquilizer.)

Unsex them, leave them bald, unsightly,

Unsex'd females

The Unsex'd Females

Often attacked for her politics, she has the distinction of having been mentioned by Richard Polwhele in The Unsex'd Females.

In this scene Mr. Cumming plays the ruthless Lady Macbeth asking the spirits to "unsex me here."

The Unsex'd Females remains of considerable interest today as a vibrant example of the politically charged culture of the revolutionary period in Britain.

Unsex'd females': Barbauld, Robinson, and Smith.

The Unsex'd Females was "well known" among the responses to Wollstonecraft and her A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.

Mathias deplored "unsex'd female writers [who] now instruct, or confuse, us and themselves, in the labyrinth of politics, or turn us wild with Gallic frenzy."

The Unsex'd Females was originally published anonymously in London in 1798 by Cadell and Davies in a standalone, one volume edition.

In The Unsex'd Females, Polwhele initially seems to divide women writers according to their sexual reputations, but a closer examination reveals that he positions them largely symbolically.

Eleanor Ty, Unsex'd Revolutionaries, University of Toronto Press, 1993, ISBN 978-0-8020-7774-5

Richard Polwhele, The Unsex'd Females: A Poem, Addressed to the Author of the Pursuits of Literature.