1. "Only Granny Weatherwax really knew Granny Weatherwax."
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Terry Pratchett, The Shepherd's Crown
2. "Words is important," Granny whispered into the night."
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Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum
3. "What a knot of history one mistake can become."
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Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna
4. "I am a Gordian knot. Don't unravel, just slice."
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Orson Scott Card, Ender in Exile
5. ". Granny said, and cleared her bone-dry throat for a second try. Esk?"
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Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites
6. "No point in imagining anything, said Granny. Things are bad enough as they are."
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Terry Pratchett, Witches Abroad
7. "My granny used to say if you’re too sharp you’ll cut yourself,"
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Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum
8. "Granny said. Only fellow my age I know still got lead in his pencil."
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Paul Levine, To Speak for the Dead
9. "[From The Jilting of Granny Weatherall] You waste life when you waste good food."
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Katherine Anne Porter, The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
10. "Long ago in China, knot-makers tied string into buttons and frogs, and rope into bell pulls. There was one knot so complicated that it blinded the knot-maker. Finally an emperor outlawed this cruel knot, and the nobles could not order it anymore. If I had lived in China, I would have been an outlaw knot-maker."
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Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior