“Her family was a relay team racing toward Tomorrowland, but her father died, and in their shock they kept losing the baton.”

“So unfair, she thought. Her baby was going to grow up, and her husband wasn't.”

“She wasn't used to being the kind of woman whose house had a study. It sounded to her like she lived on the damned Clue board.”

“It has always been preferable to attribute a woman's success to her beauty rather to her brains, to reduce her to the sum of her sex life.”

“When a woman teams up with a snake a moral storm threatens somewhere.”

“She felt like a baton getting passed along in a relay race, completely devoid of any control over her destiny.”

“A depressed person is selfish because her self, the very core of who she is, will not leave her alone, and she can no more stop thinking about this self and how to escape it than a prisoner held captive by a sadistic serial killer can forget about the person who comes in to torture her everyday. Her body is brutalized by her mind.”