Quotation by Jacques Roumain

The women were the meanest: they had truly gone wild. It is because they were the first to know that there was no food to cook, that the children cried with hunger, that they were wasting away, their limbs frail and knotty as dried wood, their enormous stomachs protruding. The women sometimes lost their heads over this and they quarrelled at times with words we are not allowed to use. But women's curses lead to nothing; they are just like the noise the wind makes. The most serious was the men's silence.