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“Lilly was not crazy. She left a serious suicide note.
'Sorry,' said the note.
'Just not big enough.”
― John Irving, The Hotel New Hampshire

“You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.”
― Erica Jong

“Long before you were born a man decided that there could be a very simple test to determine if a machine was intelligent. Not only intelligent, but aware, possessed of a psychology. The test had only one question. Can a machine converse with a human with enough facility that the human could not tell that she was talking to a machine? I always thought this was cruel--the test depends entirely upon a human judge and human feelings, whether the machine feels intelligent to the observer. It privileges the observer, the human, to a crippling degree. It seeks only believably human responses. It wants perfect mimicry, not a new thing. It's a mirror in which men wish only to see themselves.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Silently and Very Fast

“I am now starving. What sounds good? Noodles? Skewers? Ice cream? We’re grown-ups, we can have ice cream for lunch if we want.”
― Becky Chambers, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet