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I think if you had been born a boy, perhaps you would have been satisfied with what the world offered you. That is how we are alike. We saw everything that was not ours, and we hungered. Do not lose that hunger. You will always have to fight for everything. Even when you already have it, you will have to keep fighting to maintain it. You will have to be more ruthless, more brutal, more everything. Any weakness will undo everything you have accomplished. They will see any crack as evidence that they were right that a woman cannot do what you do.Kiersten White
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I do not take orders from women.”“ My men do not have a similar problem.” Lada lifted a hand. The man fell, a crossbow bolt sticking out of his chest.Kiersten White
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Why must I always be a man's servant?" Lada demanded. "If anything, I should be partners with the devil, not his servant.Kiersten White
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They are soldiers. They depend upon routine, and anything out of the ordinary will give them pause. And they are men. They hate to be insulted, but they love to hear others mocked. And they are fools, because they cannot imagine that a woman alone in the woods would be a threat.Kiersten White
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I wonder if anyone gets through childhood without being broken. I certainly did not.Kiersten White