Quote #227681
Tears aren't a woman's only weapon. The best one's between your legs.
George R. R. Martin
About This Quote
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Interpretation
The line frames sexuality as a form of power and leverage in a patriarchal world, suggesting that women can influence men not only through displays of vulnerability (“tears”) but through erotic attraction and sexual access. Its blunt phrasing is meant to shock, underscoring a cynical, transactional view of gender relations: emotional expression and sexual desirability become “weapons” in social struggle. Read critically, it reflects how characters in Martin’s world often internalize harsh political realities—reducing intimacy to strategy—while also inviting discomfort about objectification and the limited avenues of agency available to women within the setting’s constraints.




