She was not, herself, hugely in favour of motherhood in general. Obviously it was necessary, but it wasn't exactly difficult. Even cats managed it. But women acted as if they'd been given a medal that entitled them to boss people around. It was as if, just because they'd got the label which said "mother," everyone else got a tiny part of the label that said "child".

The Battle of Koom Valley is the only one known to history where both sides ambushed each other.

The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it.

Fantasy is uni-age. You can start it in the creche, and it follows you to death.

Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate.

It's the end game that people dread and that's what I'm scared of

Racism was not a problem on the Discworld, because - what with trolls and dwarfs and so on - speciesism was more interesting. Black and white lived in perfect harmony and ganged up on green.