"…the celibate priests telling the faithful what to do, where even to stick your cock, under what precise conditions, birth control absolutely forbidden like eating meat on Friday—mortal sins, not venial; if you died you went straight to Hell. (How white-lipped and furious Hannah got reading of women in the newspapers like those organized something called Planned Parenthood: she’d had to suffer so why not everybody else?)"
— You Must Remember This, Joyce Carol Oates.