Godmongers have always found it easy to pay for their beliefs with women’s lives.… - Sheri S. Tepper

Sit down, Grandma," Glory urged. "You're very pale. This is all very weird and strange, and you're allergic to strange.

Every hundred years they would be disillusioned, and each time they would swear to hide their disillusionment in order to retain their power. “We won’t tell anyone,” they’d say. “We won’t let anyone know. We’ll deny it. We’ll defend the traditional teachings!”
Such things that happened before! Men in power had made mistakes or foolish claims and spent the rest of their lives and their successors’ lives defending the indefensible, or hiding it.

If a society thinks it needs weapons, it must accept killing. If it thinks it needs violent men, it must accept rapine and assault.