Mocking a woman is like drinking too much wine. It may be fun for a short time, but the hangover is hell.

This is not a topic for gentlemen to discuss," he said with an airy tone."I'm neither gentle nor a man," Veil said.

It's interesting that the woman who wrote that treatise – the one you all practically worship in Alethkar –decided that all of the feminine tasks involve sitting around having fun while all the masculine ones involve finding someone to stick a spear in you. Telling, eh?

That girl never did have the decency to be wrong an appropriate amount of the time.

Her aunt Sol had once told Shai to smile at the worst insults and snap at the minor ones. That way, no man would know your heart.

You’re still human,” Shallan said, reaching across, putting her hand on Navani’s knee. “We can’t all be emotionless chunks of rock like Jasnah.”Navani smiled. “She sometimes had the empathy of a corpse, didn’t she?

Time tends to pass you by more quickly when you take no notice of it, my dear. In that, it's remarkably similar to most women I know.

They say they give their women more freedom, but there's still the impression that the freedom was theirs to 'give' in the first place.

She was those women, those girls, every one of them. And none of them were her.