"For men, the answer was always the same and never farther away than the nearest sword. For a woman, a mother, the way was stonier and harder to know."

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"For men, the answer was always the same and never farther away than the nearest sword. For a woman, a mother, the way was stonier and harder to know."

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"Most often women want happiness and men want wilderness."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts that to cut it free and bring it to the light of day demands courage of the rarest."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Gender, Courage, Tradition, Religion, Instinct

"When ready to settle down: women are more interested in where the man is going, men are more interested in where the woman has been."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"Making female noises, shrieking and squeaking and being shrill, all those things that annoy people with longer vocal cords. Another case where the length of organs seems to be so important to men."

Ursula K. Le Guin, American Writer

Gender, Voice, Social, Behavior

"Female is female."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Some girls say that they are by themselves because men today don't have anything to offer."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

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"Well, the lion is a big ol' coward, mostly. If you want trouble, you want to tangle with the lioness. They're killers, and they hunt together. It's the same everywhere. If you want big grief, look to the ladies."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

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"Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft are written by men."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

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"The whole world is strewn with snares traps gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"A horny man is seen. A horny woman is heard."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"Before he had lost his sight, the maester had loved books as much as Samwell Tarly did. He understood the way that you could sometimes fall right into them, as if each page was a hole into another world."

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"It was queer how sometimes a child's innocent eyes can see things that grown men are blind to."

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"No, said Bran. "I haven't. And if I have it doesn't matter. Sometimes Old Nan would tell the same story she'd told before, but we never minded, if it was a good story. Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time."

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"Most of my kin are bastards," [Tyrion] said with a wry smile, "but you're the first I've had to friend."

Friendship

"It's not," Mormont told him. "Gods save us, boy, you're not blind and you're not stupid. When dead men come hunting in the night, do you think it matters who sits the Iron Throne?"

Power

"All the world knew that a maester forged his silver link when he learned the art of healing-but the world preferred to forget that men who knew how to heal also knew how to kill."

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"Men come and go. They lie, or die, or leave you."

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"Most often women want happiness and men want wilderness."

"Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts that to cut it free and bring it to the light of day demands courage of the rarest."

"When ready to settle down: women are more interested in where the man is going, men are more interested in where the woman has been."

"Making female noises, shrieking and squeaking and being shrill, all those things that annoy people with longer vocal cords. Another case where the length of organs seems to be so important to men."

"Female is female."

"Some girls say that they are by themselves because men today don't have anything to offer."

"Well, the lion is a big ol' coward, mostly. If you want trouble, you want to tangle with the lioness. They're killers, and they hunt together. It's the same everywhere. If you want big grief, look to the ladies."

"Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft are written by men."

"The whole world is strewn with snares traps gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women."

"A horny man is seen. A horny woman is heard."

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"Before he had lost his sight, the maester had loved books as much as Samwell Tarly did. He understood the way that you could sometimes fall right into them, as if each page was a hole into another world."

"It was queer how sometimes a child's innocent eyes can see things that grown men are blind to."

"Strike hard and true, crow, or I'll come back and haunt you."

"Was there ever a war where only one side bled?"

"What sort of gods make rats and plagues and dwarfs?"

"No, said Bran. "I haven't. And if I have it doesn't matter. Sometimes Old Nan would tell the same story she'd told before, but we never minded, if it was a good story. Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time."

"Most of my kin are bastards," [Tyrion] said with a wry smile, "but you're the first I've had to friend."

"It's not," Mormont told him. "Gods save us, boy, you're not blind and you're not stupid. When dead men come hunting in the night, do you think it matters who sits the Iron Throne?"

"All the world knew that a maester forged his silver link when he learned the art of healing-but the world preferred to forget that men who knew how to heal also knew how to kill."

"Men come and go. They lie, or die, or leave you."