" A female is essentially a cunt, the pure purpose of the female is cunt, but a woman, a wife, is a cunt with a mouth, a man has to reckon with. It's a sobering fact: you start off with a cunt, you wind up with mouth. You wind up with your widow-to-be. "

― Joyce Carol Oates , Wild Nights!: Stories About the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Hemingway