“Any woman can face the world alone, but why should we have to?”

“Till that word can be dug out of us, why should they hear the babble that we think we mean? How can they meet us face to face till we have faces?”

“He looked at his face carefully in the glass, put a big dab of lather on each cheek-bone. "It's an honest face. It's a face any woman would be safe with.""She'd never seen it.""She should have. All women should see it. It's a face that ought to be thrown on every screen in the country. Every woman ought to be given a copy of this face as she leaves the altar. Mothers should tell their daughters about this face.”

“We cannot know the future. All we can do is face it bravely. We should take heed of those we love and respect. But in the end, we make every decision alone.”

“Why should we faint, and fear to live alone,Since all alone, so Heaven has will’d, we die?”

“Why should we remain innocent of what lurks in the shadows? How can we live in the world if we don't understand how dark and brutal it can be?”