Status Updates From The Silence of the Girls

"men are curiously blind to aggression in women. They're the warriors, with their helmets and armour, their swords and spears, and they don't seem to see our battles -or they prefer not to. Perhaps if they realized we're not the gentle creatures they take us for their own peace of mind would be disturbed?"

"Cornered at last, Apollo is supposed to have said: 'You can't kill me, I'm immortal.' 'Ah, yes,' Achilles replied. But-we both know if you weren't immortal, you'd be dead.' "