“But why should I cast myself in the ancient female part of victim of men's plots and passions?”
“I wanted to curse the maker for not completing the female cast with a delete slash purge button when it came to men.”
“Supposed I don't want to redeem myself? Why should I fight to uphold the system that cast me out? I shall take pleasure in seeing it smashed.”
“My life has a superb cast, but I cannot figure out the plot.”
“I disapprove of matrimony as a matter of principle.... Why should any independent, intelligent female choose to subject herself to the whims and tyrannies of a husband? I assure you, I have yet to meet a man as sensible as myself! (Amelia Peabody)”
“If Slater were someone else, Kevin would merely be the poor victim of a horrible plot. Unless he was killed by Slater, in which case he would be the dead victim of a horrible plot”