- Latka Gravas: In my country, there is a belief, and rightly so, that the only thing that separates us from the animals are mindless superstition and pointless rituals.
- Simka Dahblitz-Gravas: My beloved family and friends, this was just a horrible accident. You must believe that never have I, this innocent untried girl, ever been with a man. Never have I felt a man's warm, moist lips, pressing against my waiting mouth. Nor have I felt the hot flesh of a lover, turning at night, his muscular arm resting against my stomach, my breaths coming quick, senses heightened, the air humid with ...
- Greta Gravas: Men are nothing but lazy lumps of drunken flesh. They crowd you in bed, get you all worked up and then, before you can say 'is that all there is?', that's all there is. They pass out smokes when you are still wimpering from pain of delivery. Your flaxen hair will become like dead grass. And your once firm breasts will fall to the floor.