Lois McMaster Bujold

“Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.”

“I think 99 percent of women's lib comes from technology making different kinds of lives possible, and then the social adjustment follows the technology - it doesn't precede it.”

“When you can't do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing.”

“Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible.”

“I need words that mean more than they mean, words not just with height and width, but depth and weight and, and other dimensions that I cannot even name.”

“The world demands I make good choices on no information, and then blames my maidenhood for my mistakes, as if my maidenhood were responsible for my ignorance. Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.”