“I tell myself it will protect me. He will protect me.”

“I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.”

“When we were only acquaintances, you let me be myself, but now you're always protecting me... I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult. Can't I be trusted to face the truth but I must get it second-hand through you? A woman's place!”

“He lifted me up and held me close against him, my head on his shoulder. At that moment I loved him. In the morning light he was as golden, as soft, as gentle as myself, and he would protect me.”

“When fear and suffering are disliked by me and others equally what is so special about me that I protect myself and not the other?”

“I need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me. ”