"Women, like men, ought to have their years so glutted with freedom that they hate the very idea of freedom."
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"Some of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our circumstances. For years we lived anyhow with one another in the naked desert, under the indifferent heaven. By day the hot sun fermented us; …"
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