- Title Card: ...for it is the fate of a woman, Long to be patient and silent, to wait like a ghost that is speechless. Till some questioning voice dissolves the spell of its silence. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Mary Whitney: Some call this "Eve's curse," but I think that is stupid because the real curse of Eve was having to put up with the nonsense of Adam.
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- Grace Marks: [narrating] It is knowledge of me you crave, Doctor. Forbidden knowledge. Knowledge with a lurid glare to it. Knowledge gained through a descent into the pit. You want to go where I can never go. See what I can never see inside me. You want to open up my body and peer inside. In your hand, you want to hold my beating female heart.
- Jeremiah Pontelli: There are sharp rocks ahead.
- Grace Marks: I suppose there always are, sir. There have certainly been enough behind so I'm not too daunted.
- Jeremiah Pontelli: A disaster. You will cross water three times. You will have much trouble. But all will be fine in the end. You are one of us.
- Mary Whitney: It angers me that some people have so much and others so little. I cannot see any divine plan in it.
- Grace Marks: Would the rebels have changed that?
- Mary Whitney: Of course they would have.