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> [“The gender thing is a giveaway, though. Only a Radchaai would misgender people the way you do." I'd guessed wrong. "I can't see under your clothes. And even if I could, that's not always a reliable indicator.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-leckie/the-gender-thing-is-a-giveaway-though-only-a-radchaai-would-misgender/)

[Ann Leckie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-leckie/)

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## More by Ann Leckie

> [The Romans have provided a lot of writers with a model for various interstellar empires, of course, and no wonder. The Roman Empire is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-leckie/the-romans-have-provided-a-lot-of-writers-with-a-model-for-various/)

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> [“The gender thing is a giveaway, though. Only a Radchaai would misgender people the way you do." I'd guessed wrong. "I can't see under…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-leckie/the-gender-thing-is-a-giveaway-though-only-a-radchaai-would-misgender/)

[Ann Leckie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-leckie/)

> [“If you’d refused, nothing would have changed, except you’d be dead too. You did what you had to do,”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-leckie/if-you-d-refused-nothing-would-have-changed-except-you-d-be-dead-too/)

[Ann Leckie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-leckie/)

> [Unity, I thought, implies the possibility of disunity. Beginnings imply and require endings.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-leckie/unity-i-thought-implies-the-possibility-of-disunity-beginnings-imply/)

[Ann Leckie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-leckie/)

> [“Good necessitates evil.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-leckie/good-necessitates-evil/)

[Ann Leckie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-leckie/)

> [“The single word that directs a person’s fate and ultimately the fates of those she comes in contact with is of course a common…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-leckie/the-single-word-that-directs-a-person-s-fate-and-ultimately-the-fates/)

[Ann Leckie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-leckie/)

> [“I find forgiveness overrated. There are times and places when it’s appropriate. But not when the demand that you forgive is used to keep…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-leckie/i-find-forgiveness-overrated-there-are-times-and-places-when-it-s/)

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> [“Ridiculous!" scoffed Anaander. "Translator, ships and stations are not Significant beings, they are my property. I caused them to be built." "I'm given to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-leckie/ridiculous-scoffed-anaander-translator-ships-and-stations-are-not/)

[Ann Leckie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-leckie/)

> [Good necessitates evil and the two sides of that disk are not always clearly marked.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-leckie/good-necessitates-evil-and-the-two-sides-of-that-disk-are-not-always/)

[Ann Leckie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-leckie/)

> [“I saw them all, suddenly, for just a moment, through non-Radchaai eyes, an eddying crowd of unnervingly ambiguously gendered people. I saw all the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-leckie/i-saw-them-all-suddenly-for-just-a-moment-through-non-radchaai-eyes/)

[Ann Leckie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-leckie/)

> [Without feelings insignificant decisions become excruciating attempts to compare endless arrays of inconsequential things. It's just easier to handle those with emotions.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-leckie/without-feelings-insignificant-decisions-become-excruciating-attempts/)

[Ann Leckie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-leckie/)

> [“The smallest, most seemingly insignificant event is part of an intricate whole and to understand why one particular mote of dust falls in one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-leckie/the-smallest-most-seemingly-insignificant-event-is-part-of-an/)

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> [“When you’re doing something like this,” I said, “the odds are irrelevant. You don’t need to know the odds. You need to know how…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-leckie/when-you-re-doing-something-like-this-i-said-the-odds-are-irrelevant/)

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> [Surely it isn't illegal here to complain about young people these days? How cruel. I had thought it a basic part of human nature,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-leckie/surely-it-isn-t-illegal-here-to-complain-about-young-people-these/)

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> [“My life always seems hopeless when it’s been too long since I’ve eaten.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-leckie/my-life-always-seems-hopeless-when-it-s-been-too-long-since-i-ve-eaten/)

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