“When you abandon making choices, you enter the vast world of excuses.”

“A vast and abandoned world laid out in anonymous grids and quadrants, a view that confirmed you were much more alone than you thought you were, a view that inspired the flickering thoughts of suicide.”

“Everything you do in life, every choice you make, has a consequence. When you do things without thinking, then you aren't making the choice. The choice is making you.”

“When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.”

“To make an excuse sidesteps responsibility. But to make a choice automatically assumes responsibility.”

“Being female in this world means having been robbed of the potential for human choice by men who love to hate us. One does does not make choices in freedom. Instead, one conforms in body type and behavior and values to become an object of male sexual desire, which requires an abandonment of a wide-ranging capacity for choice... Men too make choices. When will they choose not to despise us?”