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“[…] perhaps that made us equal and they were trying to console themselves by depriving me of the only thing they could.”

“Did they only keep me in ignorance so they could pretend they weren't entirely powerless?”

“But I didn't believe them: they nearly all menstruated, and how can you feel privileged not to have something that everyone else has? I felt they were deceiving me.”

“My memory begins with my anger.”

“For a very long time, the days went by, each one just like the day before, then I began to think, and everything changed.”

“I felt as if this pain would never be appeased, that it had me in its grip for ever, that it would prevent me from devoting myself to anything else, and that I was allowing it to do so.”

“I was forced to acknowledge too late, much too late, that I too had loved, that I was capable of suffering and that I was human after all.”

“I who no longer speak because there is no one to hear me, began to call her. Anthea! Anthea! I shouted. I couldn't forgive her for not being there, for having allowed death to snatch her, to tear her from my clumsy arms.”

“They often seem to feel the need to emphasise that they wrote the book not out of vanity but because someone asked them to, and that they had thought about it long and hard before accepting. How strange! It suggests that people were not avid to learn, and that you had to apologise for wanting to convey your knowledge.”

“But doesn't the best science fiction make us think about our world anew, and who we are?”

“It's a puzzle that cannot be solved, isn't supposed to be solved, because it is in the process of grappling with it that we discover the point for ourselves.”

“Perhaps in its own way the novel slyly demonstrates the natural peacefulness that a world without men might possess […].”

“[…] of cruelty, of hopelessness, are not without precedent - we're kidding ourselves if we think of these cruelties as ones unique to a fictional alien planet. But there is love, as well as horror, […]”

“It is human to be afraid of death, of unimaginable pain, and it's another kind of humanity to transcend it.”

“But maybe it is femininity itself that is the strange thing. […] What could be more human than want and desire: the machinations of your body kicking in? (And what a strange thing we are forced to admit desire is, when seen at this distance).”

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