Robert Jordan: Woman

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“Better to have one woman on your side than ten men.”

Robert Jordan The Great Hunt

al'Lan Mandragoran
Variant: There is an old saying here in the Borderlands: "Better to have one woman on your side than ten men."
Source: The Great Hunt (15 November 1990)

“Often you don't know whether a woman is friend, enemy or lover until it is too late. Sometimes, she is all three.”

Robert Jordan Lord of Chaos

Thom Merrilin
(15 October 1994)
Source: Lord of Chaos

“One pretty woman means fun at the dance. Two pretty women mean trouble in the house. Three pretty women mean run for the hills.”

Robert Jordan

Matrim Cauthon
(15 October 1991)

“A woman’s eyes cut deeper than a knife.”

Robert Jordan

Two Rivers saying
(15 October 1994)

“My mother says men are different from us. She says we want to be in love, but only with the one we want; a man needs to be in love, but he will love the first woman to tie a string to his heart. - Egwene, speaking to Elayne”

Robert Jordan

“I will never shame you. I will hate the man you choose because he is not me, and love him if he makes you smile. No woman deserves the sure knowledge of widow's black as her brideprice, you least of all.”

Robert Jordan book The Eye of the World

al'Lan Mandragoran to Nynaeve al'Meara
(15 January 1990)
Source: The Eye of the World

“The lions sing and the hills take flight.
The moon by day, and the sun by night.
Blind woman, deaf man, jackdaw fool.
Let the Lord of Chaos rule.”

Robert Jordan Lord of Chaos

Chant from a children’s game heard in Great Arvalon, the Fourth Age
(15 October 1994)
Source: Lord of Chaos

“If the world is ending, a woman will want time to fix her hair. If the world's ending, a woman will take time to to tell a man something he's done wrong.”

Robert Jordan

Matrim Cauthon
(15 October 1994)
Source: The Wheel of time series by Robert Jordan

“If a woman does need a hero, she needs him today, not tomorrow.”

Robert Jordan

Egwene al'Vere
(7 January 2003)

“Better to try understanding the sun than a woman.”

Robert Jordan

Thom Merrilin
(15 October 1993)

“A man must know when to retreat from a woman, but a wise man knows that sometimes he must stand and face her.”

Robert Jordan

Davram Bashere
(15 October 1994)

“When a young woman's cheeks redden for no apparent reason, there is usually a man involved.”

Robert Jordan

Sorilea to Egwene al'Vere
(15 October 1994)

“Dance well with a woman, and she’s halfway yours.”

Robert Jordan

Matrim Cauthon
(15 October 1994)

“The arrogance of men never ceases to amaze me. You all think everything has to do with you, and every woman has to desire you.”

Robert Jordan

Min Farshaw
(15 October 1991)

“If you try putting a woman on a horse when she does not want to go, she may put a knife in your ribs.”

Robert Jordan

Aviendha to Matrim Cauthon
(15 October 1994)

“Never prod at a woman unless you must. She will kill you faster than a man and for less reason, even if she weeps over it after.”

Robert Jordan

Lews Therin Telamon
(15 October 1994)

“A weeping woman is a bucket with no bottom.”

Robert Jordan

Lini
(15 September 1992)

“I think the woman was born in Far Madding in a thunderstorm. She probably told the thunder to be quiet. It probably did.”

Robert Jordan

Basel Gill, referring to Lini
(9 November 2000)

“A man who will not die to save a woman is no man.”

Robert Jordan

Shienaran saying
(15 November 1990)