

“If personal meaning, in this cheer leader society, lies in success, then failure must threaten identity itself.”
― Death of a Salesman: Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem
― Death of a Salesman: Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem

“Why does the mention of love, the memory of love, the memory of love lost, the promise of love, the end of love, the absence of love, the burning, burning need for love, need to love, result in so much violence?”
― Women Talking
― Women Talking

“Surely, she says, encouraging others to lie on our behalves must be a worse sin than lying ourselves.”
― Women Talking
― Women Talking

“Man's discovery that his genitalia could serve as a weapon to generate fear must rank as one of the most important discoveries of prehistoric times along with the use of fire and the first crude stone axe," concluded the American writer Susan Brownmiller in her groundbreaking account of rape, Against Our Will, published in 1975”
― Our Bodies, Their Battlefields: War Through the Lives of Women
― Our Bodies, Their Battlefields: War Through the Lives of Women

“No, Ernie, says Agata, there’s no plot, we’re only women talking.”
― Women Talking
― Women Talking
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