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“But I didn’t and still don’t like making a cult of women’s knowledge, preening ourselves on knowing things men don’t know, women’s deep irrational wisdom, women’s instinctive knowledge of Nature, and so on. All that all too often merely reinforces the masculinist idea of women as primitive and inferior – women’s knowledge as elementary, primitive, always down below at the dark roots, while men get to cultivate and own the flowers and crops that come up into the light. But why should women keep talking baby talk while men get to grow up? Why should women feel blindly while men get to think?”
― Ursula K. Le Guin

“I have followed Hamlet for so long, so blindly. Now that he is gone, I do not remember how to walk on my own.”
― Sarah Monette, Somewhere Beneath Those Waves

“how seldom we recognize the sounds when the bolt of our fate slides home.”
― Thomas Harris, Red Dragon

“The hero wasn’t me, any more than the villain was Harry McLauglin, forty-year-old forest ranger and father of two. We were just the matrices that held the pattern, the straw and clay from which myth was built. And now that we are only straw and clay again, the world does not know what to do with us.”
― Sarah Monette, Somewhere Beneath Those Waves