Taren Ferry folk had a reputation for slyness and trickery. If you shook hands with a Taren Ferry man, people said, you counted your fingers afterwards.

I grew up around strong women; weak men were pickled and salted. The women wouldn't waste time raising a weak boy.

Facing them (men) with knives and spears was much easier than loving them, much easier.

My mother says men are different from us. She says we want to be in love, but only with the one we want; a man needs to be in love, but he will love the first woman to tie a string to his heart. - Egwene, speaking to Elayne

Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack.

A secret spoken finds wings.

Why, that's like being told to go up in the hills to find lions, only you do not know whether there are any lions, but if there are, they may be hunting you, and they may be disguised as bushes. Oh, and if you find any lions, try not to let them eat you before you can tell where they are. -Elayne