“I grew up around strong women; weak men were pickled and salted. The women wouldn't waste time raising a weak boy.”

“The men in my family are strong because the women in my family kill and eat the weak ones.”

“Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.”

“Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack.”

“Blood and bloody ashes. Even dead women treated him the way Nynaeve did. Where did they learn it? Were there secret lessons?”

“And for some reason, men and women who told the tale often found a need to add almost identical words. The storm is coming, they said, staring southward in worry. The storm is coming.”

“One pretty woman means fun at the dance. Two pretty women means trouble in the house. Three pretty women means run at the hills.”