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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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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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All true wealth is biological.
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Utterly bleak and black is not the sum of realism. All the other colors are real, too.
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Miles added it to his life's lessons list. Call it Rule 27B. Never make key tactical decisions while having electro-convulsive seizures.
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His outflung hands traced over the threads of his rug, passed loop by loop through some patient woman's hands. Or maybe she hadn't been patient. Maybe she'd been tired, or irritated, or distracted, or hungry, or angry. Maybe she had been dying. But her hands had kept moving, all the same.
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Growing up, I have discovered over time, is rather like housework: never finished.
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Bleeding ulcers run in my family, we give them to each other.
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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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I spent my 20s working in patient care at a large university hospital, an experience that has informed all my work and has given me a lot of human observation to draw on.
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What you are is a question only you can answer.
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Real destiny takes everything-the last drop of blood, and strip out your veins to be sure-and gives it back doubled. Quadrupled. A thousand-fold! But you can't give halves. You have to give it all. I know. I swear. I've come back from the dead to speak the truth to you. Real destiny gives you a mountain of life, and puts you on top of it.
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Too late, he recalled Miles's dictum that the reward for a job well done was usually a harder job.
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Honor is what you know about yourself.
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If there's no game, isn't winning a pretty meaningless concept?
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A good friend of my son's is a son to me.
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Read, or you will be missing something extraordinary.
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I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days.
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If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?
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You should have fallen in love with a happy man, if you wanted happiness. But no, you had to fall for the breathtaking beauty of pain.
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When the time comes to leap in faith whether you have your eyes open or closed or scream all the way down or not makes no practical difference.
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