Quotes from Tehanu by Ursula Le Guin
But do you see, Aunty, I never saw a man till I
was a woman grown. Only girls and women. And yet I didn’t know what
women are, because women were all I did know. Like men who live among
men, sailors, and soldiers, and mages on Roke - do they know what men
are? How can they, if they never speak to a woman?
Flint had never washed a dish in his life.
Women’s work. But Ged and Ogion had lived here, bachelors, without
women; everywhere Ged had lived, it was without women; so he did the
“women’s work” and thought nothing about it. It would be a
pity, she thought, if he did think about it, if he started fearing
that his dignity hung by a dishcloth.
