“I was not much used to women except for mothers. Everything I did, they did different.”

“I have always maintained that, excepting fools, men did not differ much in intellect, only in zeal and hard work; and I still think there is an eminently important difference.”

“Why did I not know that birth is the pinnacle where women discover the courage to become mothers?”

“In a few minutes nobody will know what I did. Everything will be perfect again. Except for my life.[Oscar Banks]”

“I tried not to think about it. But every so often it would burst out of me - why did he do something so unkind? What had I done to deserve it? I did believe, from my experience of life and of looking at the world, that men hated women. But there were all kinds of exceptions, and I'd have bet everything that this man didn't hate me, this woman.”

“A brick could be used as a response when the cops ask you if you murdered your mother-in-law. Forget yes or no. Well, forget yes altogether, but use brick for every response except one: What object did you use to carry out the killing?
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