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“My womb was a factory component and would couple with someone's testes, which were also a factory component, in order to produce babies. [...] If we couldn't find his spaceship, society would make me form a breeding pair with someone else.
I hoped we would find the spaceship before that happened.”
― Sayaka Murata, Earthlings

“A woman's happiness is in throwing everything away to live for love.”
― Ai Yazawa, Paradise Kiss, Vol. 5

“What I'm really scared of is believing the words society makes me speak are my own.”
― Sayaka Murata, Earthlings

“Everyone believed in the Factory. Everyone was brainwashed by the Factory and did as they were told. They all used their reproductive organs for the Factory and did their jobs for the sake of the Factory. My husband and I were people they’d failed to brainwash, and anyone who remained unbrainwashed had to keep up an act in order to avoid being eliminated by the Factory.”
― Sayaka Murata, Earthlings