“We lose more women to marriage than war, famine, and disease.”
“Either a species learns to control its own population, or something like disease, famine, war, will take care of the issue.”
“Earth is a homicide victim. We lose our children. There are wars. Disease. And God comes strolling by like a cosmic Billie Burke.”
“Do you think that they, with their Battles, Famine, Black Death and Serfdom, were less enlightened than we are, with our Wars, Blockade, Influenza, and Conscription.”
“Every one knew he could foretell wars and famines, though that was not so hard, for there was always a war, and generally a famine somewhere.”
“Women have always been the primary victims of war. Women lose their husbands, their fathers, their sons in combat.”