“Your life can be different, Young Ju. Study and be strong. In America, women have choices.”

“Strong moral character results from consistent correct choices in the trials and testing of life. Your faith can guide you to those correct choices.”

“Studying the young woman’s long thin legs, Tessa wondered how different her life would have been if she had had legs like that. She could not help but suspect that it would have been almost entirely different.”

“Chosen motherhood is the real liberation. The choice to have a child makes the whole experience of motherhood different, and the choice to be generative in other ways can at last be made, and is being made by many women now, without guilt.”

“It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation. ”

“Your current life is the result of your previous choices, if you want something different, begin to choose differently.”