I heard someone speaking to Miss Stein as I had never heard one person speak to another; never, anywhere, ever. Then Miss Stein's voice came pleading and begging, saying, "Don't, pussy. Don't. Don't, please don't. I'll do anything, pussy, but please don't do it. Please don't. Please don't, pussy.

The woman you call the mother of the child is not the parent, just a nurse to the seed, the new-sown seed that grows and swells inside her. The man is the source of life — the one who mounts.

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Page 17 A thinking man is his own legislator and confessor, and obtains his own absolution, but the woman, let alone the girl, does not have the measure of ethics in herself. She can only act if she keeps within the limits of morality, following what society has established as fitting. She is never forgiven if she has revolted against morality, possibly rightly so. Appears in 9 books from 1947-2000

Page 71 A Declaration, of a Strange and Wonderfull Monster: Born in Kirkham Parish in Lancashire (the Childe of Mrs. Haughton, a Popish Gentlewoman) the Face of It upon the Breast, and without a Head... Appears in 19 books from 1900-2008

Page 53 ... both the original and the translation recognizable as fragments of a greater language, just as fragments are part of a vessel. Appears in 85 books from 1969-2007

Page 33 For never yet has any man rowed past this isle in his back ship until he has heard the sweet voice from our lips. Nay, he has joy of it , and goes his way a wiser man. For we know all the toils that in wide Troy the Argives and Trojans endured through the will of the gods, and we know all things that come to pass upon the fruitful earth. Appears in 8 books from 1927-2007

Page 53 Unlike a work of literature, translation does not find itself in the center of the language forest but on the outside facing the wooded ridge; it calls into it without entering, aiming at that single spot where the echo is able to give, in its own language, the reverberation of the work in the alien one. Appears in 46 books from 1957-2007

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