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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: 70
Born: 1954
Born: December 13
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Feelings, she learned, were hard to fight. She treasured his smiles and compliments and tried not to dwell on the fact that he gave this things to his friend Kel. His dreamy-eyed gazes, poems, and fits of passionate melancholy were for Uline. It was hard not to resent the older girl.
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If I have to 'catch' a man to get a husband, I don't want one.
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Why do boys say someone acts like a girl as if it were an insult?
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Raoul: Age and treachery! Neal: Youth and skill!
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Goodwin scowled at her cup. With all due respect, my lord, I hate it when you make sense.
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Books are still the main yardstick by which I measure true wealth.
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There is a saying in the Islands. Beware the women of the warrior class, for all they touch is both decorative and deadly.-Yuki
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Not one word, Kel warned. Tobe and I have reached an understanding. Neal's lips twitched. Why do I feel you did most of the understanding.
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When people say a knight's job is all glory, I laugh, and laugh, and laugh.
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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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Not too fast, called Raoul. Let's not scare anyone. His majesty said with all deliberate speed! chirped the courier. He flinched under Lerant's glare. That's how we're doing it, Raoul told him. Deliberately.
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Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life.
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If you aren't having fun, if you aren't anxious to find out what happens next as you write, then not only will you run out of steam on the story, but you won't be able to entertain anyone else, either.
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With each book, in each place, I have to keep an ongoing map as I write because otherwise I don't know where I am.
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When in doubt, shoot the wizard.
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She would have kissed him, if she kissed stupid men.
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Your life might be easier if you were. A fool for love is happier than a Dog with a heart that's all leather.
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But, Sergeant Osbern, Sir, I like my head.
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Frostpine made a face. Lifting the cup, he dumped its contents down his throat. “Auugghh!” he yelled, his voice stronger than it had been since his return from the harbor. Are you trying to kill me, woman? If I mean to kill someone, I do it, Rosethorn told him. I don't try.
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