An Echo in the Bone (Outlander, #7)

by Diana Gabaldon

you rely upon the willingness of someone else to commit violence for you.”

“A woman takes life with her when she goes. A woman is … infinite possibility.”

Do women hold back the evolution of such things as freedom and other social ideals, out of fear for themselves or their children? Or do they in fact inspire such things—and the risks required to reach them—by providing the things worth fighting for? Not merely fighting to defend, either, but to propel forward, for a man wanted more for his children than he would ever have.