“It is, of course, easier for a man to kill a woman - he is healthier and more aggressive. The habit of weapons, again. But she takes it with her wits: treat her to mushrooms with gruel, pour crushed light bulbs into a cutlet, drop rat killer into wine. And it is also convenient to snatch away from the sleeping person that protruding organ, the sole possession of which seems to the jealous party to be a fair goal...”