"They make a criminal of you.

Them and their children be cursed.

Is my life given me for nothing but to get children, and work to bring them up?
See them all in hell first.

They'd better die while they're children, if childhood's all that important." "I quite agree," said Lilly.

"If childhood is more important than manhood, then why live to be a man at all?
Why not remain an infant ?" "Be damned and blasted to women and all their importances," cried Aaron.
"They want to get you under, and children is their chief weapon." "Men have got to stand up to the fact that manhood is more than childhood--and then force women to admit it," said Lilly.