"Death, it seems," Garp wrote, "does not like to wait until we are prepared for it. Death is indulgent and enjoys, when it can, a flair for the drama… - John Irving

All men are liars, said Roberta Muldoon, who knew this was true because she had once been a man.

May God watch over your soul, which no man may abuse.

Here is the trap you are in.... And it's not my trap — I haven't trapped you. Because abortions are illegal, women who need and want them have no choice in the matter, and you — because you know how to perform them — have no choice, either. What has been violated here is your freedom of choice, and every woman's freedom of choice, too. If abortion was legal, a woman would have a choice — and so would you. You could feel free not to do it because someone else would. But the way it is, you're trapped. Women are trapped. Women are victims, and so are you.