Flat or round, there has always been hate in the world. - Tanith Lee

We should go and ask the princess for help. She seems very nice, and she’s much too beautiful to be unkind.

And in the manner of this ideal we strive, though even that not too onerously. For piety itself may be used to make a chain about the soul.

I would be a drudge now, among the tents, and I would kneel before the warriors, and run from them when they shouted at me. I would be a woman, as women were reckoned in this place, a half-souled, witless animal, created to bear and pleasure men: an afterthought of the god.