“This move is called Qworegoys,and the women of my grandmother's family taught it to their daughters just as they taught them to make thorn-bush fences to protect the hut from hyenas.”

“Dad called this the shadow time. The sun sucks colour from the world, he'd said. He'd taught her to see the softer colours of the dusk, the green and orange bark, the purple shadows. At times like this Flinty felt her edges vanish, leaving her part of the mountains, like the wallaby pulling wonga vine down from a thorn bush, or the sleepy possum peering from a tree.”

“Had I a thousand daughters, by Heaven! I'd as soon have them taught the black art as their alphabet!”

“Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.”

“Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.”

“I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.”