“There are plenty of images of women in science fiction. There are hardly any women.”

“Women are plentiful, and you can easily change one for another.”

“I was hardly fit for human society. Thus destiny shaped me to be a science fiction writer.”

“Aren't most romance heros, or heros in fiction of any kind, generally superior to real men? Same goes for heroines and real women.”

“Women are, all of them, the veritable images of Śakti.”

“It’s certain that fine women eat
A crazy salad with their meat
Whereby the Horn of plenty is undone.”

“Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.”

“History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.”

“The suburban housewife — she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife — freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother … had found true feminine fulfilment.”

“Science Fiction: Any scientific acclaim that omits God.”