“Women are all alike-- aye fussin' over their fal-lals and bedazin' a man's eyes, when all they really want is man's blood and his heart out of his body and his soul and his pride....”

“Like all really strong-minded women, on whom everybody flops, she adored being bossed about. It was so restful.”

“The life of a journalist is poor, nasty, brutish, and short. So is his style”

“...The Abbe's warning: 'Never confront an enemy at the end of a journey, unless it happens to be his journey'.”

“He was enmeshed in his grief. He did not notice that Graceless's leg had come off and that she was managing as best she could with three.”

“But she had a lively acquaintaince with confinement through the works of women novelists, especially those of the unmarried ones.”

“Dear, Missus, Mister - I beg you never to give thoughts to war, in no way, not to work for it, not by writing nor by reading about it nor by looking at the pictures nor on the television about it. Not in any way ever, at all. Not by being a soldier, sailor, airman, work in factory or above all at atom bombs. Above all at atom bombs. No obligation for this, dear fellow creature. Signed Your Fellow Creature.''P.S.,' said Gerald slowly, without turning from the window, 'If we all do this, we shall succeed.”