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Lois McMaster Bujold on Women

born 1949 United States

← All quotes by Lois McMaster Bujold

7 quotes

Women do desperately need models for power other than the maternal.

“Women shouldn’t be in combat,” said Vorkosigan, grimly glum.
“Neither should men, in my opinion.”

Shards of Honor (1986)

Life with women did not just induce strange behavior, it appeared; it induced very strange behavior.

Ethan of Athos (1986)

I am increasingly convinced that technological culture is the entire root of women's liberation.

The Vorkosigan Companion (2008)

Ordinary men and women…die every day. For all sorts of reasons, from random chance to inexorable time. Death is not an Imperial monopoly.

Memory (1996)

Women. Uterine replicators with legs, as it were.

Ethan of Athos (1986)

I propose a treaty. You can have all the rest of the women in the universe. I just want this one.

A Civil Campaign (1999)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Lois McMaster Bujold (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.