“Indeed, woman can be a machine run wild, or a machine can be a better, more subjugated, and efficient woman.”

“when God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine to make the machine. And evil that can run itself a thousand years, no need to tend it.”

“You can find meanness in the least of creatures, but when God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine to make the machine. And evil that can run itself a thousand years, no need to tend it.”

“No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write "too much"...No woman has ever written enough.”

“The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.”

“One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. ”