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"They were all hapless children when it meant denying them access to power and it was that lack of power that made them helpless, made them monstrous, made them subject to the benevolent [man], who would save them from their deficiencies. Each gear turned tidily into its neighbor in a soul-grinding system designed to sustain the men who had named the pieces and made them so: damsel, devil, servant, wife."

"here Sciona had spent all these hearkening the way men stepped on women to get to where they were going. In refusing to be a stepping stone, she had made herself a boot. But there was the irony. Because [...] boots were nevee made to step on the necks of [those in power]; the city would never allow [her] the power to stamp [on them]. It did, however, afford her power to ... Tread on those closest to her."

"because good people can turn desperate when the horrors are upon them - especially people whose culture of plenty has left them with no systems to cope with scarcity or cataclysm. Good people will turn monstrous when it's down to their survival or someone else's"

"we don't need to be friends - or even friendly. [...] I admit, I've been slow on the uptake, but I'm starting to understand how ridiculous it is to demand civility when the world is so disgustingly uncivil. So, I'm not here to ask for your friendship or your grace"