“Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.”

“When a woman gives birth her waters break and she pours out the child and the child runs free.”

“Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-haired child.”

“She was a defective child-bearing machine. She destroyed herself automatically while giving birth to Dwayne.”

“She was a defective child-bearing machine. She destroyed herself automatically while giving birth to Dwayne. The printer disappeared. He was a disappearing machine.”

“Mrs. Kronborg was a strange woman. That word "talent", which no one else in Moonstone, not even Dr. Archie, would have understood, she comprehended perfectly. To any other woman there, it would have meant that a child must have her hair curled every day and must play in public. Mrs. Kronborg knew it meant that Thea must practice four hours a day. A child with talent must be kept at the piano, just as a child with measles must be kept under the blankets.”