Without the protection of surliness and levity, all children would be crushed by the past — the past of others, loaded onto their shoulders. Selfishn… - Margaret Atwood

Furthermore, I believe that in order to have civil and human rights for women there have to be civil and human rights, period …

My fundamental position is that women are human beings, with the full range of saintly and demonic behaviours this entails, including criminal ones. They're not angels, incapable of wrongdoing. If they were, we wouldn't need a legal system.

I intend to get out of here. It can't last forever. Others have thought such things, in bad times before this, and they were always right, they did get out one way or another, and it didn't last forever. Although for them it may have lasted all the forever they had.