The lustful who punish beauty would be wiser to control lust. - Sheri S. Tepper

I will never love anyone who is not first my friend. I wonder if you could be my friend.

For those impervious to history, only sterilization and quarantine are efficacious.

I think... girls have a hard time being interesting. It’s actually easier to be famous, or notorious, than it is to be interesting. In our world, girls climb very well until they hit puberty-sexual maturity-and then they begin to fall out of the tree. They start role-playing instead of thinking, flirting instead of learning. They start admiring how smart the boys are-or how athletic or how handsome-instead of concentrating on their own intelligence.