If we just allowed women and men more leeway in our culture and more acceptance, I think they would be able to make better compromises.

Marriage is for noblewomen with nothing else to do.

Frostpine made a face. Lifting the cup, he dumped its contents down his throat. “Auugghh!” he yelled, his voice stronger than it had been since his return from the harbor. "Are you trying to kill me, woman?" "If I mean to kill someone, I do it," Rosethorn told him. "I don't try.

Alanna: All I know is that I'm to jump when I'm told and I have no free time.

There is a saying in the Islands. Beware the women of the warrior class, for all they touch is both decorative and deadly.-Yuki

Why do I get the feeling that if you give me a hard time, I'll tell all of our year-mates your family nickname is Meathead?

Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.