“What a man can take with a sword, a woman can give by her flesh alone. Life.”
“When you take a woman away from her man, what you get is a woman who can be taken away from her man.”
“We think that we know a man or a woman, when so much of what we know is actually that man's or that woman's situation, his or her place on the board of life. Move the pawn to the last row and see her rise in armor, sword in hand.”
“Honour is what no man can give you, and none can take away. Honour is a man's gift to himself.”
“Apparently, a woman can only go so long without a sword between her hands.”
“A man would always wish to give a woman a better home than the one he takes her from; and he who can do it, where there is no doubt of her regard, must, I think, be the happiest of mortals.”