“And if all womankind banded together and took the male path, the world would turn into one huge brothel.”

“Those silly girls had no idea what they were really celebrating. They had no idea what it took to bring Agatha and her friends together seventy-five years ago. The Women's Society Club had been about supporting one another, about banding together to protect one another because no one else would. But it had turned into an ugly beast, a means by which rich ladies would congratulate themselves by giving money to the poor. And Agatha had let it happen. All her life, it seemed, she was making up for things she let happen.”

“If only someone asked my opinion, I'd say the male species is disastrous to the development of womankind and they ought to be removed promptly”

“It only took one imperfection. One. Then laughs would turn into screams [...]. People would turn into memories and memories into nightmares.”

“Researchers like Vanessa believe that the key to [bonobos] pacifism and remarkable group tolerance and cooperation is a matriarchal society: Whenever a male starts to bully or attack a female, she cries out and other females band together and discipline the males, re-establishing calm and cooperation.”

“If all it took to become vampire was to be bitten by one, then the world would have been overrun with vampires millennia ago.”