7,390 Quotes About Women

By the time I wrote this book I needed to look at heroics from outside and underneath, from the point of view of the people who are not included. The ones who can’t do magic. The ones who don’t have shining staffs or swords. Women, kids, the poor, the old, the powerless. Unheroes, ordinary people—my people. I didn’t want to change Earthsea, but I needed to see what Earthsea looked like to us.

I think my Mama and Savannah must be special people in the Lord's eyes, as they have gone about doing generous and loving things without even a second thought. For me, it seems like the only thing that comes natural is aggravation and hard word

Let us play hide and seek in a mountain which is like a women's back.

Colin: "1 dinna understand why we canna just go to bed and have sex." He looked truly puzzled.

I remembered a definition of chivalry I'd heard once: a man protecting a woman against every man but himself.

It often struck Nina that women who seemed capable of only limited mental tasks in most situations could retain information regarding other peoples weight for years, sometimes decades. Unlike genuine idiots savants, they couldn't tell you that December 13, 1972 had fallen on a Wednesday. But they could often tell you, within a pound or two, how much you'd weighed that week.

Women would rather talk to other women than to men, even when they would rather talk to a man than to a woman.

The appointment of a woman to office is an innovation for which the public is not prepared, nor am I.

I like games of chance, including women.