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“She wove stories about this lord and that lady, calling them by their clothes since she didn’t always know their names.” — V.E. Schwab Copy Share Image
“Maybe it frightened them, to admit that a woman could be master of her fate.” — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
“So many men had tried to make her a queen. Now she understood that she was meant for something more.” — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
“... she took her husband's jokes and joviality as patiently as everything else, considering that "men would be so", and viewing the stronger sex… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“She had been to a tea-party with an antediluvian monster, and that they had been waited on by up-to-date men-servants.” — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
“I make that four horses and ten men just to get rid of one old woman. What did you do to the King?” — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
“Out of the corner of his eye Wycliff saw the little maid’s cheeks turn pink. He’d forgotten how adorably prudish and modest English women… — Maya Rodale Copy Share Image
“LADY BRACKNELL I had some crumpets with Lady Harbury, who seems to me to be living entirely for pleasure now. ALGERNON I hear her… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Who was a queen and loved a poet once Humpbacked, a dwarf? ah, women can do that!” — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
“Amaranthe cleared her throat. “Enough girl talk. There are enemy cabins full of dastardly old ladiesthat we must infiltrate.” — Lindsay Buroker Copy Share Image
“We’ve exalted our womenfolk into little tin gods, and at the same time left them out of the real business of life.” — John Buchan Copy Share Image
“She infested his mind, thoughts of worshipping her in dark ways, her laugh would be his reward, her screams his payment for a man… — V. Theia Copy Share Image
Beware of self-indulgence. The romance surrounding the writing profession carries several myths: that one must suffer in order to be creative; that one must… — David Brin Copy Share Image
“Men can be brilliant and strong, they whispered to one another. But men can be mad, as well. And the mad ones can ruin… — David Brin Copy Share Image
Strutting and preening is, in fact, the surest sign of an inferiority complex. — David Brin Copy Share Image
“We aren’t a curse upon the world. We are her new eyes. Her brain, testes, ovaries . . . her ambition and her heart.… — David Brin Copy Share Image
If you believe you can make a living as a writer, you already have enough ego. — David Brin Copy Share Image
Historically, central planners have generally done a poor job of managing economic resources - this we've known since the time of the Pharaohs. — David Brin Copy Share Image
A neurosis defends itself by coming up with rationalizations to explain away bizarre behavior. — David Brin Copy Share Image
Alas, criticism has always been what human beings, especially leaders, most hate to hear. — David Brin Copy Share Image
It's how creativity works. Especially in humans. For every good idea, ten thousand idiotic ones must first be posed, sifted, tried out, and discarded.… — David Brin Copy Share Image
Tragedies such as Nevil Shute's 'On the Beach' and Stanley Kubrick's 'Dr Strangelove' are so powerful because there's an underlying assumption that this did… — David Brin Copy Share Image
In contrast, markets - oft mythologized as "natural" are the most unnatural things going. Libertarians will tell you "market laws are laws of nature",… — David Brin Copy Share Image
