“It troubles me every time to think my fellow women were the ones who actually gave birth to men with attitudes as stringent as yours.”

“Sometimes I think all the trouble in the world is caused by men. If there were no men, women would always be happy. ~Carrie”

“In the 1940s women were changing from home to hospital where they gave birth alone and thus birth became a mystery to the next generation.”

“Writers spend all their time preoccupied with just the things that their fellow men and women spend their time trying to avoid thinking about. ... It takes great courage to look where you have to look, which is in yourself, in your experience, in your relationship with fellow beings, your relationship to the earth, to the spirit or to the first cause—to look at them and make something of them.”

“One day men will look back and say I gave birth to the Twentieth Century.”

“I think I have always liked my fellow men. Liking is a great deal safer than love. It doesn't demand victims. Who is your victim, Querry?”