You walk around feeling like a teenager and immortal your whole life, and suddenly there isn't much time left.

Every year Swedish society produces a new generation of threatened women who can testify to the lack of legal rights and the lukewarm interest shown by the police and other authorities.

To Sally, who showed me the benefits of the sport of golf.

Candy within reach and then I have to go on a diet.

[Her] greatest fear, which was so huge and so black that it was of phobic proportions, was that people would laugh at her feelings.

History is reticent about women who were common soldiers, who bore arms, belonged to regiments, and took part in battles on the same terms as men, though hardly a war has been waged without women soldiers in the ranks.

Faste knew better than to argue with a doctor, since they were the closest things to God's representatives here on Earth.