Orson Scott Card (1951) American science fiction novelist
Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Alvin Journeyman (1995), Chapter 14.
“When men do wrong, it is out of hardness; when women do wrong, it is out of weakness.”
— Anne Louise Germaine de Staël, book Corinne
Bk. 6, ch. 3
Corinne (1807)
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