How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #1
They had injected him with hepatitis and the disease had run its course and he had died. (1.150)
This is the first mention of scientific experimentation in the book. Claud, Connie's husband, was arrested and experimented on. Science, for Connie, even before the brain implants, isn't about progress and nifty inventions; it's about figuring out horrible ways to kill the people she cares about. (If you think this sort of experimentation seems exaggerated, you should read about the Tuskegee syphilis experiment, which ended only a few years before Woman On the Edge of Time was published.)
Quote #2
How that Dr. Redding stared at her, not like she'd look at a person, but the way she might look at a tree, a painting, a tiger in the zoo. (4.76)
The scientists in the asylum don't see Connie as a person. That's why they feel they can do anything to her; she's not really human to them. If they don't treat her like a human, does that mean she doesn't need to treat them as humans? Dr. Redding sets himself up for a lot of grief with that look. (Watch out for the coffee, buddy.)