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Yes, a woman makes a fine weapon in capable hands...slim and supple as a sword blade...and a blade to which no man’s armor is completely proof.

— Lin Carter Tower at the Edge of Time (1968)

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Mere abstention from a life of evil does not constitute a life devoted to good works.

Kesrick (1982)

The past has lost, as it always loses; the future has won, as it always wins.

Time War (1974)

Lux forced grief from his mind, thinking grimly of revenge.

Time War (1974)

Love, it seems, has its own arguments which are so potent that cool Reason can seldom, if ever, prevail.

“If one doesn’t learn from one’s unhappy experiences,” he wisely observed, “what’s the point of all that suffering?”

The Wizard of Zao (1978)

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The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.

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There is a Lady sweet and kind,
Was never face so pleased my mind;
I did but see her passing by,
And yet I love her till I die.

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To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman.

Mahatma Gandhi

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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