“Vampires, like virgins or priests, are things that women believe in. We must never fail to humor them in such matters.”

“If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.”

“We are born to believe We can’t change a thing We can’t, and we never could. But before you believe The things you believeYou must understand To be understood.”

“things that matter most must never be at the mercy of the things that matter least.”

“In the South you are ashamed of being a virgin. Boys. Men. They lie about it. Because it means less to women, Father said. He said it was men invented virginity not women. Father said it's like death: only a state in which the others are left and I said, But to believe it doesn't matter and he said, That's what's so sad about anything: not only virginity and I said, Why couldn't it have been me and not her who is unvirgin and he said, That's why that's sad too; nothing is even worth the changing of it...”

“If there is in this world a well-attested account, it is that of vampires. Nothing is lacking: official reports, affidavits of well-known people, of surgeons, of priests, of magistrates; the judicial proof is most complete. And with all that, who is there who believes in vampires?”