“They were more severely infected than the men, because while men were always getting furious, they calmed down in the end; women, who appeared to be silent, acquiescent, when they were angry flew into a rage that had no end.”

“Paul had always thought that women were never more serious than when they were naked.”

“All through life there were distinctions - toilets for men, toilets for women; clothes for men, clothes for women - then, at the end, the graves are identical.”

“Other women who flew were women of independent means. But I had to do something with it.”

“Darwin believed that women were not as competent as men, and less intelligent than men, but they were better than a dog.”

“The women who were best able to grow spiritually and psychologically had married men who were the least able to grow.”

“They are more than men at the outset of their battles; at the end they are less than the women.”

“Well,” Naomi said cheerfully, “what’s the worst that can happen?” They were silent, considering that, because there were just so many possibilities. But in the end, it was a better idea than Facebook.”

“Men were always quick to believe in the madness of women.”

“As I walked down to the end of the barracks, there was applause from the men too weak to get out of bed. It sounded like the hand clapping of babies; they were so weak.”