“The woman is the most perfect doll that i have dressed with delight and admiration.”

“A doll is among the most pressing needs as well as the most charming instincts of feminine childhood. To care for it, adorn it, dress and undress it, give it lessons, scold it a little, put it to bed and sing it to sleep, pretend that the object is a living person - all the future of the woman resides in this. Dreaming and murmuring, tending, cossetting, sewing small garments, the child grows into girlhood, from girlhood into womanhood, from womanhood into wifehood, and the first baby is the successor of the last doll. A little girl without a doll is nearly as deprived and quite as unnatural as a woman without a child.”

“We admire a faultlessly dressed woman without realizing that this deceptive simplicity hides a world of calculation.”

“Like all children, you would have loved and admired her. You would have named your favorite doll after her....And then you would have poked out the doll's eyes.”

“I mean, seriously, is a baby doll dress for the breastless? I don’t know.”

“Benny gave her an admiring look. He had never heard a woman swear so much in such a short time. He thought it sounded delightful.”