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Harry Turtledove on Women

born 1949 United States

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He thought she was the most wonderful woman in the world. Of course he did—she agreed with him.

Opening of the World (2007)

Women are what made me the way I am now. I do not believe the illness is also the cure.

Opening of the World (2007)

Anne saw his attention focus on her. It still wasn’t the look a man gave an attractive woman: more like the look a sniper gave a target.

Southern Victory (1997)

“I see that this photograph shows me you have been imperfectly truthful here,” he told them, having been too well brought up to call a woman a liar to her face.

Southern Victory (1997)

She hated the calendar, hated the mirror and what it showed her every morning. A handsome woman, that’s what you are. She would almost rather have been ugly. Then she wouldn’t have to remember the beauty she had been not so long ago.

Southern Victory (1997)

“Foolishness,” Ulric Skakki said. “Everything that goes on between men and women is full of foolishness.”

Opening of the World (2007)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Harry Turtledove (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.