هیچ چیز بیشتر از آوردن دلیل برای توجیه بی فکری به کوشش فکری نیاز ندارد. - Milan Kundera

"The phrase "It's absolutely the same with me, I..." seems to be an approving echo, a way of continuing the other's thought, but that is an illusion: in reality it is a brute revolt against a brutal violence, an effort to free our own ear from bondage and to occupy the enemy's ear by force. Because all of man's life among his kind is nothing other than a battle to seize the ear of others."

To rebel against being born a woman seemed as foolish to her as to take pride in it.

إذ يستطيع جيشان كبيران أن يتصارعا حتى الموت من أجل قضايا مقدسة، لكن بكتيريا صغيرة ونتنة تقضي دائما على الاثنين.