The Female of the Species (poem) The Female of the Species (poem) "The Female of the Species" is a poem by Rudyard Kipling originally published in 1911. The title and refrain have been used as a title for at least three other works (see The Female of the Species (disambiguation)). It begins with illustrations of the greater deadliness of the females of different species, the Himalayan bear, the cobra and the Native American, who frightened the Jesuits more than the men. It continues with the general thought that women, "must be deadlier than the male", as she is formed for the one purpose - motherhood. Woman,
The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years (, "And longer than a century lasts a day"), originally published in Russian in the "Novy Mir" literary magazine in 1980, is a novel written by the Kyrgyz author Chinghiz Aitmatov. In an introduction written in 1990, during "perestroika", the author wrote that the original title was "The Hoop" ("Обруч"), which was rejected by censors. The title "The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years", taken from the poem "Unique Days" ("единственные дни") by Boris Pasternak, used for the magazine version ("Novy Mir", #11,