The misogyny that shapes every aspect of our civilization is the institutionalized form of male fear and hatred of what they have denied and therefore cannot know, cannot share: that wild country, the being of women.

In the tale, in the telling, we are all one blood. Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping it's not poison; and we will all come to the end together, and even to the beginning: living, as we do, in the middle.

I never knew anybody . . . who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details.

The king was pregnant.

Nothing is yours. It is to use. It is to share. If you will not share it, you cannot use it.

In the tale, in the telling, we are all one blood.

You fear them because you fear death, and rightly: for death is terrible and must be feared,' the mage said...'And life is also a terrible thing,' Ged said, 'and must be feared and praised.