Sensible. Conservative and sensible and mature and *wrong*. Very much in character with Joanne.

You controlled both animals and people by controlling their reproduction -- controlling it absolutely.

She had learned to keep her sanity by accepting things as she found them$$$ adapting herself to new circumstances by putting aside the old ones whose memories might overwhelm her.

Your body said one thing. Your words said another. It moved a sensory arm to the back of his neck$$$ looping one coil loosely around his neck. "This is the position$$$" it said. "I'll stop now if you like."

This would be so goddamn much easier if I weren't human$$$ she said. "Think about it. If I weren't human$$$ why the hell would I care whether you got raped?"

Could she give Doro what he wanted -- what she herself had wanted for so long -- children who would not die?

Frankly$$$ it never occurred to me that I needed someone who looked like me to show me the way. I was ignorant and arrogant and persistent and the writing left me no choice at all.

Laughter emerges in the realization that all along$$$ the original was derived.

Believe in something larger than yourself.

Ah! Gay the day with shine of sun$$$<br>and bright the breeze$$$ and blithe the throng<br>Met on the River-bank to play$$$<br>when I was young$$$ when I was young.