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It seems to me that you then had a very good sense of who you were, independent of your role as mother or daughter.”
“Long or short, if you worry about every step of a journey, you will divide it endlessly into pieces, any one of which may defeat you. Look only to the end.”
“We were speaking of people living their dreams, and I said that few do, and even fewer enjoy the experience. For too many, when they get their dream, they discover it is not what they wanted. Or the dream is bigger than their abilities, and all ends in bitterness.
There were too many feelings inside him that he knew they wouldn’t like. That didn’t mean he could stop feeling them.
“Never wait for a male on any such decision. You are the queen. You decide. Males are not made for such decisions. I have seen it time and time again. They would have you wait for days of sunshine and wealth and plenty. Yet to a male, enough is never sufficient, and plenty never reached. A queen knows that when times are hardest and game most scarce, that is when one must care most about the continuance of the race. Some things are not for males to decide.”
No female should wait on a male’s command for what is our business.
“One does not need the size of a dragon to have the soul of a dragon.
