Young he was not, so that one had to call him old, but the word did not suit him. - Ursula K. Le Guin

If women had power what would men be but women who can't bear children? And what would women be but men who can?

In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we're done with it, we may find - if it's a good novel - that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have changed a little... But it's very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed.

To know there is a choice is to have to make the choice: change or stay: river or rock.