“But women have to give hard thought to the men we'll wind up with. Make a mistake and get a drunk, a spendthrift, a cruel man. A man who won't keep his word. ... In marriage, man and woman become one, and that one is the husband.”

“They'll try to make you forget who you are or try to make you ashamed. But you mustn't forget and you mustn't be ashamed.”

“The curves of his smile become the waves in my ocean.”

“I knew that a man was not only himself but also who he wished to be.”

“He's the beating pulse of every cause dear to me.”

“And I reminded myself that a woman should be able to dress as she liked without a man hurting her...”

“Why was it that women were expected to restrain our every passion for the sake of propriety, but men couldn't do it even for the sake of the women they loved?”

“But women have to give hard thought to the men we'll wind up with. Make a mistake and get a drunk, a spendthrift, a cruel man. A man who won't keep his word. ... In marriage, man and woman become one, and that one is the husband.”

“Selene’s life is a lesson to us that the trajectory of women’s equality hasn’t always been a forward march. In some ways the ancients were more advanced than we are today”