“Why, she wondered, do we always reserve our worst hatred for our own?”

“Why the woman is better...though she was created second she was made from Adam's side whole Adam was made from common clay. Woman should be preferred to man because Eve was created inside Paradise, but Adam was created outside. As for will, woman should be considered superior to man-for Eve ate of the apple for the love of knowledge and learning, but Adam ate of it merely because she asked him.”

“There was always a way, when one knew what one wanted.”

“She did not care about anything very much. Hope was gone. She existed that was all.”

“Who was to know what went on in a person's heart? A wise woman kept her own counsel.”

“...for Eve ate of the apple for love of knowledge and learning, but Adam ate of it merely because she asked him.”

“She had discovered that her love of knowing was not unnatural or sinful but the direct consequence of a God-given ability to reason.”