Random first lines from books on my shelf...

"Wildlife and the Wild Woman are both endangered species."
--Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Women Who Run with the Wolves

"Is a pen a metaphorical penis?"
--Sandra Gilbert & Susan Gubar, The Madwoman in the Attic

"Time is not a line, but a dimension, like a dimension in space."
--Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye

"'The continuous work of our life,' says Montaigne, 'is to build death.'"
--Simone de Beauvior, The Ethics of Ambiguity

"The moon is full."
--Starhawk, The Spiral Dance