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“Of course it is,” said Serene. “The woman goes through the physically taxing and bloody experience of childbirth. A woman’s experience of blood and pain is, naturally, what makes womenkind particularly suited for the battlefield. Whereas men are the softer sex, squeamish about blood in the main. I know it’s the same for human men, Luke was extremely disinclined to discuss my first experience of a woman’s menses.”
― In Other Lands
― In Other Lands
“The school had a cat, a plump marmalade feline, who went by the name of Biscuits.”
― Sabriel
― Sabriel
“It’s because you’re too much alike. What did the abbess used to say? That our own flaws infuriate us in other people?”
― Nettle & Bone
― Nettle & Bone
“I was so tired of being broke and hungry. At least for a moment I could be happy and full of chicken.”
― Magic Burns
― Magic Burns
“What, you people expect women to tear apart their bodies and then go to all the bother of raising the children? That takes years, you know,” Serene remarked sternly. “The women’s labour is brief and agonizing, and the man’s is long and arduous. This seems only just. What on earth are men contributing to their children’s lives in the human world? Why would any human woman agree to have a child?”
― In Other Lands
― In Other Lands
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