“Apparently, a woman can only go so long without a sword between her hands.”
“But you can only lie about who you are for so long without going crazy.”
“What a man can take with a sword, a woman can give by her flesh alone. Life.”
“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.”
“Like a bicycle, like a wheel that, once rolling, is stable only so long as it keeps moving but falls when its momentum stops, so the game between a man and woman, once begun, can exist only so long as it progresses. If the forward movement today is no more than it was yesterday, the game is over.”
“The women of this country learned long ago, those without swords can still die upon them.”