- Jean Purdy: How do you feel about spectacles and false teeth? You'd rather people be blind or unable to eat anything but soup? That's what God wants, is it?
- Jean Purdy: Women presume we can have children. We're told so. There is a biological and social expectation. Nothing can make the pain of that absence worse.
- Bob Edwards: I am scientist Jean. I fail every day in the hope that I'll succeed once in twenty years.