I had, of course, no model for that sort of woman being married, but I can make that up as I go along.

Even if a tamed wolf makes a good sheepdog, he will never understand how the sheep feel....You are most fortunate. For having been, as you thought, a coward, and helpless to fight - you know what that is like. You know what bitterness that feeling breeds - you know in your own heart what kind of evil it brings. And so you are most fit to fight it where it occurs.

No, but a cello is the perfect string bass for an accordion. Works with it beautifully.

There is simple ignorance, not knowing, and willful ignorance that refuses to know, that covers the light of knowledge with the dark blanket of bias.

Now my mother, interestingly enough, was not a feminist in her own mind.

Other people, including me, have written books with main characters who were old and rich. Or old and brilliant. Old sages, old wizards, old rich people.

Having a mother who had been an aeronautical engineer convinced me that more things should be open to women.