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“This may seem like a strange thing to say, but these are post-9/11 fantasy. I've read post-9/11 SF already, but this is the first fantasy that had that feel fore me. I don't mea they have allegory, or even applicability. They're their own thing, not a shadow-play of our world. But they have that sensibility, in the same way that Tolkien was writing about Dark Lords in the shadow of Hitler and Stalin and Marion Zimmer Bradley was writing about Free Amazons during the seventies upswell of feminism.”
― Jo Walton, What Makes This Book So Great: Re-Reading the Classics of Science Fiction & Fantasy

“The library wants to fight back.”
― Margaret Rogerson, Sorcery of Thorns

“So he made his choice without even knowing he had made one.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Word for World is Forest

“MAMA SAL: When you're a girl, hija, and a Mexican, you learn that you only got one shot at being a woman and that's being a mother.

LUNA: Tell Medea. She's the mother, not me.

MAMA SAL: You go from a daughter to a mother, and there's nothing in between. That's the law of our people written como los diez commandments on the metate stone from the beginning of all time.”
― Cherríe L. Moraga, The Hungry Woman: A Mexican Medea & Heart of the Earth: A Popul Vuh Story