Thanks for sharing these excerpts. Love it.

Witches unite!

My hat is full of sky

Witches know the answer to the trolley problem

Witches *are* the answer to the trolley problem.

I have always seen the Witches as the blueprint for my job. I'm a nurse and I primarily work with drug addicts.

Terry loved all of his characters but at the end of the day the Witches are what held the Disc together

Tiffany Aching rocks!

I probably think about them on a daily basis, particularly Granny’s headology fix of a bad back and the fact that Nanny Ogg knew how to start spelling 'banana', but didn't know how you stopped…

I love every single witch in Discworld, even the dodgy ones like Mrs Letice Earwig (a brutal skewering of a certain type of occult practitioner). I also love how Terry (and Miss Tick) know exactly what happens to communities that won’t accept their witches.

I loved how Mrs. Earwig finally got to shine--and it was her most annoying trait that ended up being just what was needed.

The witches are always proof that it takes all sorts.

Sometimes on a metaphysical basis, and sometimes just one person, one household, one village at a time. I'm reading the Tiffany Aching books right now! I'm somewhere in the middle of I Shall Wear Midnight, and I was briefly impressed with Tiffany's "okay, lock me up then" routine...

"How clever," I thought, "she's going on strike so people understand how important the work she's doing actually is!" But I'd forgotten that that would mean deliberately withholding the help that others need. Her approach, of course, is quite a bit more subtle. I'm loving her books so much.

Fav Granny W, loosely remembered, “…she was aware of a powerful, dark, malevolent spirit in the woods, and knew that it was her” (this is my goto for courage, non of that Bene Gesserit nonsense)

I feel like the Witches, particularly Granny Weatherwax and then Tiffany’s arc, either influenced or are more reflective of who I am and have become than any nonfictional individual I can think of—the lessons of kindness and morally-wielded strength throughout all of his works.

And also how one's flaws don't necessarily define you, and you can choose to wield them to help others. “All witches are selfish, the Queen had said. But Tiffany’s Third Thoughts said: Then turn selfishness into a weapon! Make all things yours! Make other lives and dreams and hopes yours!

Protect them! Save them! Bring them into the sheepfold! Walk the gale for them! Keep away the wolf! My dreams! My brother! My family! My land! My world! How dare you try to take these things, because they are mine! I have a duty!” ― Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men

have you read any of terry's collab with stephen baxter, the long earth series? just started it. loving the power terry gives to the potato (able to power transdimensional teleportation to the west earths and east earths while also still able to serve as an emergency snack for a hungry stepper)

I'm still amazed to this day that a lot of people didn't get that the Witches are the intellectuals of Discworld.

I want to grow up to be Granny Weatherwax.

That “bumps and inconveniences” reminds me of a similar line in Wryd Sisters - something about witches being tolerated because “they smooth out life’s lumps and bumps”. Obviously a definition he thought about a lot.