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Orson Scott Card on Women

born 1951 United States

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16 quotes

Some men are great enough that they can love a whole woman, and not just part of her.

Prentice Alvin (1989)

"'A woman's wisdom is her gift to women,'" Peggy quoted. "'Her beauty is her gift to men. Her love is her gift to God.'"

Prentice Alvin (1989)

“The woman is the subtlest beast in the garden,” said Papa Moose, “now that snakes can’t talk.”

The Crystal City (2003)

Religion makes them crazy. Not a woman I ever met wasn't crazy with religion.

Seventh Son (1987)

Many a man isn't as good as his woman, but I never knew a husband who was better than his wife.

Saints (1983)

No man can bear to live with a woman who speaks nothing but the truth to him.

Stone Tables (1997)

Only stupid men trying to seem smart need to be with dumb women. Only weak men trying to look strong are attracted to compliant women.

What is this thing between women, like men are a joke that women all told each other long ago but men never get it.

Treasure Box (1996)

It was always from the love of strong women that he had found whatever joy had been granted him in his life.

Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus (1996)

Living with a god is not what it's cracked up to be. They think their women should be grateful just to have them around.

Enchantment (1999)

Such fools they were in Battle School, to let so few girls in. It left the boys completely helpless against a woman when they returned to Earth.

Shadow of the Giant (2005)

God's hand is strange to us. He cares nothing for the moment, nothing for the feeble ambitions of men and women. He sees the road that flows onward forever.

Stone Tables (1997)

Maybe she just wanted to be the one to decide when things happened between them. Then again, what women didn't want to decide that?

Homebody (1998)

How strange it was that this other woman, this girl-child, should speak of her son so possessively, should speak of his future as if it were her own future.

Enchantment (1999)

"Women's intuition" wasn't intuition at all, it was heightened observation, unconscious registration of subtle clues.

Enchantment (1999)

Out of respect for custom he treats me as if all women were equally worthless. He gives custom more respect than he gives me.

Earthborn (1995)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Orson Scott Card (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.