Heinlein, Robert A. (1961). Stranger in a Strange Land. Putnam. ISBN978-0-441-79034-0 （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）.: "Now here we have another emotional symbol... for almost three thousand years or longer, architects have designed buildings with columns shaped as female figures... After all those centuries it took Rodin to see that this was work too heavy for a girl... Here is this poor little caryatid who has tried—and failed, fallen under the load.... She didn't give up, Ben; she's still trying to lift that stone after it has crushed her..."
Heinlein, Robert A. (1961). Stranger in a Strange Land. Putnam. ISBN978-0-441-79034-0 （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）.: "Now here we have another emotional symbol... for almost three thousand years or longer, architects have designed buildings with columns shaped as female figures... After all those centuries it took Rodin to see that this was work too heavy for a girl... Here is this poor little caryatid who has tried—and failed, fallen under the load.... She didn't give up, Ben; she's still trying to lift that stone after it has crushed her..."
