Lancelot: Morgaine, Morgaine – kinswoman, I have never seen you weep. Morgaine: Are you like so many men, afraid of a woman’s tears? (…) Lancelot: No (…) it makes them seem so much more real, so much more vulnerable – women who never weep frighten me, because I know they are stronger than I, and I am always a little afraid of what they will do.