“A man gives out, dearie. A woman takes in.”
“What a man can take with a sword, a woman can give by her flesh alone. Life.”
“Sometimes,' she said, 'it takes a woman to bring out the best in a man.”
“It was God who gave a man's rib to a woman. But it is man who must learn to give away his heart and never take it back.”
“You're a respectable woman, dearie, and her reputation is a woman's wealth.""Her wealth," Tenar repeated in the same blank way; then she said it again: "Her wealth. Her treasure. Her hoard. Her value...”
“The difference between the love of a man and the love of a woman is that a man will always give reasons for loving, but a woman gives no reasons for loving.”