“Y'all don't treat women fair
She read about herself in the bible
Believing she the reason sin is here”

“Once she knows how to read there's only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is herself.”

“She read and read and read, but she was stuffing herself with the letters on the page like an unhappy child stuffing itself with chocolate. They didn’t taste bad, but she was still unhappy.”

“She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.”

“She held herself very straight, like Audrey Hepburn, whom all women idolize and men never think about.”

“I have not yet spoken my last word about women. I believe that if a woman succeeds in withdrawing from the mass, or rather raising herself from above the mass, she grows ceaselessly and more than a man.”

“I say that there is no role for women—there is, instead, a role for each woman, and she must make it for herself.”

“Yes, Eleanor loathed herself and yet required praise, which she then never believed.”

“So she sat on with closed eyes, and half believed herself in Wonderland, though she knew she had but to open them again, and all would change to dull reality.”

“Sometimes Margaret tells herself that there's a moral difference between killing kittens for no reason and what she does.”