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1 " You know how the story ends. He escaped and went on to become the greatest chief Suntown ever had. He never built a shrine or a temple or even a shack in the name of Tia. In the Great Book, her name is never mentioned again. He never mused about her or even asked where she was buried. Tia was a virgin. She was beautiful. She was poor. And she was a girl. It was her duty to sacrifice her life for his. "
― Nnedi Okorafor , Who Fears Death (Who Fears Death, #1)
2 " But I am just a woman who thinks her duty is not to forget. And this duty, which I believe I must fulfill, is: " as a woman" living now I must repeat again and again " I am a woman," because we exist in an epoch still so ancient and ignorant and slow that there is still always the danger of gynocide. "
3 " The love between man and woman is a voluntary pact in which the one who falls short is only guilty of perfidy, but when a woman has become a mother her duty is greater because nature has entrusted the human species to her. If she fails then she is a coward, unworthy and infamous. "
― Guy de Maupassant , Pierre et Jean
4 " How sadly things had changed since she had sat there the night after coming home! Then she had been full of hope and joy and the future had looked rosy with promise. Anne felt as if she had lived years since then, but before she went to bed there was a smile on her lips and peace in her heart. She had looked her duty courageously in the face and found it a friend--as duty ever is when we meet it frankly. "
― L.M. Montgomery , Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
