For the first time in many years she tasted the word king itself with all linked associations of battle, marriage, priesthood, mercy and power.
You do not fail in obedience through lack of love, but have lost love because you never tried obedience.
Equality before the law, equality of incomes - that is very well. Equality guards life; it doesn't make it. It is medicine, not food.
The cardinal difficulty in collaboration between the sexes is that women speak a language without nouns. If two men are doing a bit of work, one will say to the other, "Put this bowl inside the bigger bowl which you'll find on the top shelf of the green cupboard." The female for this is, "Put that in the other one in there." And then if you ask them, "in where?" they say, "in there, of course."
The final book in C.S. Lewis's Cosmic (or Space) trilogy. 'Hideous' is interesting but not an easy read, mainly because it is too long and lacks pace.
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