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I think 99 percent of women's lib comes from technology making different kinds of lives possible, and then the social adjustment follows the technology - it doesn't precede it.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Lois McMaster Bujold
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 2
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Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.
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This is important! But you have to stay absolutely cool. I may be completely off-base, and panicking prematurely. I don't think so. I think you're panicking post-maturely. In fact, if you were panicking any later it would be practically posthumously. I've been panicking for days.
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The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.
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It’s important that someone celebrate our existence, she objected amiably. People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The domain of all meaning. All virtue, all evil, are contained only in people. There is none in the universe at large. Solitary confinement is a punishment in every human culture.
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On the sixth day God saw He couldn't do it all, so He created ENGINEERS
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For me, writing is more a process of discovering the book than planning it.
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You have to be careful who you let define your good.
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Do it for yourself. The universe will be around to collect its cut later.
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Most people go through their whole lives without killing anybody. False argument.
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The gods give no gifts without hooks embedded.
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Surely only correct understanding could lead to correct action.
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Mia Maz glanced aside in concern at his muffled snort. Are you all right? Yes. Sorry, he whispered. I'm just having an attack of limericks. Her eyes widened, and she bit her lip only her deepening dimple betrayed her. Shhh, she said, with feeling.
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Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say.
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There is no more hollow feeling than to stand with your honor shattered at your feet while soaring public reputation wraps you in rewards. That's soul-destroying. The other way around is merely very, very irritating.
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And this was your friend? Cordelia raised her eyebrows. Seems to me the only difference between your friends and your enemies is how long the stand around chatting before they shoot you.
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I've always tried to write the kind of book I most loved to read: character-centered adventure.
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My home is not a place, it is people.
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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.
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A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.
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The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers. Prayer is a dangerous business.
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