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Girls are 50% of the population. We deserve to represent 50% of the heroes.

Tamora Pierce

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Tamora Pierce
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: December 13
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You're an obnoxious canker-blossom. Go ooze somewhere else.
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There is power and there is power, my dear. My power can be vast, in the right places.
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Anyone who tells you they don't need to rewrite, they're usually the ones who need it worst.
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Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.
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And if they don't believe us, I can give them the ghost eyes, you can go all big and threatening, Farmer can do his cracknob simpleton, and my lady can don her nobleness. We'll do all right.
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I wish you would thrash him. He deserves it. She looked back at him. I will one day, sir. I'm getting tired of falling down.
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Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary.
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You're more trouble than you're worth. I'm a girl. That's my job.
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You turned into a hero when I wasn't watching.
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When people say a knight's job is all glory, I laugh and laugh and laugh. Often I can stop laughing before they edge away and talk about soothing drinks.
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Men died as she watched, and they didn't care about what they had fought for.
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You know, ogres only sound stupid. Most are pretty smart. And it's a shallow person who judges anyone by the way they sound. I'm so shallow I'm surprised I don't reflect myself.
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If I have to 'catch' a man to get a husband, I don't want one.
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We could mate. In a year our nestlings would be large enough to mob anyone we like...Should I begin to court you? Do you like grubs or ants better?...I will be here. In case you change your mind about mating.
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Once she was certain, she didn't waiver. I had to make her stop for water or a bite to eat. She obeyed, but she was restless. As clear as if she spoke to me, she was saying, Very well, I know you want to keep my strength up, but scent fades, you know! And I'd say, I know, girl, buy you're what I have and I'm going to take care of you.
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A cat understands how to be pleasant in the morning. He doesn't talk.
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She would have kissed him, if she kissed stupid men.
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