“In her mind Emma was quite disturbed! But then … aren’t we all?”
“It is not possible to satisfy women," a friend said. "We are disturbed if we have children too young. Disturbed if we have then later. Disturbed if we don't have children at all.”
“She was as sated with him as he was tired of her. Emma had rediscovered in adultery all the banality of marriage.”
“We are all dying, aren’t we, Willow, from the very moment we are born?”
“Things we were going to do are now being done by others. They were, it seems, not in our minds to do (were we or they out of our minds?) but simply ready to enter any open mind, any mind disturbed enough not to have an idea in it.”
“We aren’t a curse upon the world. We are her new eyes. Her brain, testes, ovaries . . . her ambition and her heart. Her voice. So sing. (556)”