(...) and in her moments of deepest depression found solace in gazing at the stars. “There must be other races out there,” she wrote in a letter to Ting in the mid 1950’s, “watching our tiny yellow sun glimmering in their unknown field of the sky. Do they desire us as we desire them?”
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/20/books/review/20Itzkoff.html
Love is the Plan The Plan is Death:
http://web.archive.org/web/20080513184250/http://www.scifi.com/scifiction/classics/classics_archive/tiptree/tiptree1.html
http://davidlavery.net/Tiptree/Site_Images/tiptree.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Tiptree,_Jr.