Honestly, that's part of why I'm vary about re-reading it too.

Polgara was my idol when I was a teenager, to the point where I don't know where I'd be today if I hadn't honed my shoddy English skills on reading Polgara the Sorceress. If I was "uh, okay" about the way that series went about women twenty years ago, I'm not sure I could stomach it at all today.