“Female authors were still using male names when I was young, or they were neatly shoehorned into womens books except for those few that men could always point at when the disparity was pointed out.” MenStillsBookYoungNamesFemaleMalesDisparity Author:Sherwood Smith
“Angry men with pointy things sent to secure a foreign city are pretty much alike anywhere. That's what I've heard. So far nothing's convinced me different.” MenDifferentCitiesHeardAngryConvincedSecureAngry Man Book:King's Shield: Book Three of Inda Source: King's Shield: Book Three of Inda
“I had seen ardency in men's eyes, but I had only felt it once. With Flauvic, false and therefore easy to dismiss. I suddenly wished that I could feel it now. No, I did feel it. I did have the same feeling, only I had masked it as restlessness, or as the exhortation to action, or as anger. I thought how wonderful it would be to see that spark now, in the right pair of eyes.” MenFeelsFeelingsWould BeEyeActionFeltEasyWonderfulPairsSparksRestlessness Author:Sherwood Smith
“No, I don't think I could fall in love with him, handsome though he is, because I don't accept any of that huff he gives me about my great beauty and all that. I'd have to trust a man's words before I could love him. I think.” ThinkingMenGivingFallAcceptingGive MeFalling In LoveHandsome Author:Sherwood Smith