“I nod but I really don’t feel so good. I am cold through and through and when I look out the car window at the snow I see trees move when they do not. I am experiencing Death all around me and I cannot move.”

“One thing I like about the Aliens series is the fact of its many, many, pregnant men.”

“This is a story about a woman who has an abortion.”

“Two medicines must be used for the medical termination of pregnancy: mifepristone and misoprostol”

"I tell a friend there is so much to feel guilty about / then I think about how this is a woman's thought a woman's problem"

“Who but a maniac or a goddamn fool would sit down and write a novel attacking marriage? And who’d want to read such a novel?” For Richard Yates, author of Revolutionary Road, these questions were rhetorical.