“What history touches the woman in the rice paddy driving her water buffalo ahead of her plow while her husband is off somewhere, most likely a conscript, carrying a weapon?”
Source: Chapterhouse: Dune
“I'm not stupid, Mr. Potter. What's the real reason you didn't tell me, and what were you actually doing with Mr. Malfoy?"
"Ah. Well..." Harry broke eye contact with her, and looked down at the library table.
"Draco Malfoy told the Aurors under Veritaserum that he wanted to know if he could beat me, so he challenged me to a duel to test it empirically. Those were his exact words according to the transcript."
"Right," Harry said, still not meeting her eyes. "Hermione Granger. Of course she'll remember the exact wording. It doesn't matter if she's chained to her chair, on trial for murder in front of the entire Wizengamot -"
"What were you really doing with Draco Malfoy?"
Harry winced, and said, "Probably not quite what you're thinking, but..."
The horror scaled and scaled within her, and finally broke loose.
"You were doing SCIENCE with him? "
"Well -"
"You were doing SCIENCE with him? You were supposed to be doing science with ME!”
Source: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
“There is no right or wrong way to grief. There is only one way - your way!”
Source: Me, My Grief and I: Life goes on
“Confounding though it seems, to acknowledge our dilemma, that we are no different from any animal coexisting on this planet, ironic really when through the ages, we have struggled with such pretense of something greater.”
Source: Lotus-eating Japan: Who is this man I hardly know?
“Are we not clouded by our own self-interest, veiled by our misunderstandings, corrupted by the misinformation feeding the 'motherboard'….our brain?”
Source: Lotus-eating Japan: Who is this man I hardly know?
“The games we have become familiar, and striven to compete. Yet the subtlety of gaining position is harder to achieve. We can never fully embrace that moment of success...from the outset it is a male-dominated leaning we sadly fail to address. No matter how we try, we cannot assimilate. On principle we are not one of them.”
Source: Lotus-eating Japan: Who is this man I hardly know?
“Immobilized in marriage, since long ago, she was taken as rightful property under wedlock. As a side note, I am urged to comment, the curious nature of these terms property and wed-lock; as if doomed to be firmly kept under latch and key, a padlocked yard? Pastures lain fallow occasionally?”
Source: Lotus-eating Japan: Who is this man I hardly know?
“And with this frailty of mind, society in general acts like the petulant child in the sandbox, relational aggression occasionally frothing above the surface.”
Source: Lotus-eating Japan: Who is this man I hardly know?
“. . . time and time again her allies would snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.”
Source: Rejected Princesses: Tales of History's Boldest Heroines, Hellions, and Heretics
“What if I can't ever be who you want me to be? What if I keep letting you down?”
Source: Crazy