“When [Japanese] women encouraged men to bask in public glory, it reminded me of the way you would indulge a child with a sweet-bean treat.”
— Kittredge Cherry
“In direct confrontation, the [Japanese] women might yield like blades of grass — and spring back just as quickly. One of them compared this flexibility to the Vietcong guerrillas…”
— Kittredge Cherry
“Confounding though it seems, to acknowledge our dilemma, that we are no different from any animal coexisting on this planet, ironic really when through the ages, we have struggled with such pretense of something greater.”
— Lotte Roy
“And with this frailty of mind, society in general acts like the petulant child in the sandbox, relational aggression occasionally frothing above the surface.”
— Lotte Roy
“The games we have become familiar, and striven to compete. Yet the subtlety of gaining position is harder to achieve. We can never fully embrace that moment of success…from the outset it is a male-dominated leaning we sadly fail to address. No matter how we try, we cannot assimilate. On principle we are not one of them.”
— Lotte Roy
“Are we not clouded by our own self-interest, veiled by our misunderstandings, corrupted by the misinformation feeding the ‘motherboard’….our brain?”
— Lotte Roy
“Immobilized in marriage, since long ago, she was taken as rightful property under wedlock. As a side note, I am urged to comment, the curious nature of these terms property and wed-lock; as if doomed to be firmly kept under latch and key, a padlocked yard? Pastures lain fallow occasionally?”
— Lotte Roy