" 'The point is,' said Anna, as her friend came back from the telephone on the landing, 'the point is, that as far as I can see, everything's cracking up.'" Free Women: 1, pg 1

" 'Free women,' said Anna, wryly. She added, with an anger new to Molly, so that she earned another quick scrutinizing glance from her friend: 'They still define us in terms of relationships with men, even the best of them.'" Free Women: 1, pg. 4.

"One novel in five hundred or a thousand has the quality a novel should have to make it a novel - the quality of philosophy." Free Women: 1, pg. 59.

"Human beings are so divided, are becoming more and more divided, and more subdivided in themselves, reflecting the world, that they reach out desperately, not knowing they do it, for information about other groups in other countries. It is a blind grasping...