“Maybe being brave was not highly desireable in women. Normal women would have fled, like Pansy.”

“Women, I believe, search for fellow beings who have faced similar struggles, conveyed them in ways a reader can transform into her own life, confirmed desires the reader had hardly acknowledge--desires that now seem possible. Women catch courage from the women whose lives and writings they read, and women call the bearer of that courage friend. [p. 138]”

“Women's fiction is just a marketing category, designed to appeal more to women than to men. But there are stories in that category that any human being would like.”

“...women, brave as stars at dawn”

“How can you be afraid of women?”“Those ain’t normal women.”

“In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.”