“It is no small thing, this, for a woman: freedom.”

“You can smile when your heart is breaking because you're a woman.”

“Take care with your words, Jacquetta, especially in cursing. Only say the things you mean, make sure you lay your curse on the right man. For be very sure that when you put such words out in the world they can overshoot-like an arrow, a curse can go beyond your target and harm another. A wise woman curses very sparingly.”

“A man will always promise to do more than he can do to a woman he cannot understand.”

“When a man wants a mystery, it is generally better to leave him mystified. Nobody loves a clever woman.”

“Before anything else I was a woman who was capable of passion and who had a great need and a great desire for love.”

“She looked at me as if for a moment she would seek someone who would understand the dreadful predicament of a woman, in this world ruled by men.”