Step IV and Two More Stories Quotes

“That is exactly why we cut ourselves off from the rest of civilization. To stay out of your wars, to carry on civilization when you have laid it waste. That is why we are a planet of parthenogenetic women." "Is it?" he asked. "Was it to carry on the torch for civilization or to flee from it? Life flows, Juba. If it doesn't flow forward, it flows backward. Which way does your world go?" Which”
― Rosel George Brown, Step IV and Two More Stories: Restored Classics to Go Edition