“Be critical. Women have the right to say: This is surface, this falsifies reality, this degrades.”

“In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable: and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality.”

“The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades.”

“Its surface sheened with saft that evaporated out from its crystal shielding in threads that degraded to nothing.”

“There is a philosophy that says that if something is unobservable -- unobservable in principle -- it is not part of science. If there is no way to falsify or confirm a hypothesis, it belongs to the realm of metaphysical speculation, together with astrology and spiritualism. By that standard, most of the universe has no scientific reality -- it's just a figment of our imaginations.”

“What one person sees as degrading and disgusting and bad for women might make some women feel empowered and beautiful and strong.”