MARION ZIMMER BRADLEY

The scandal's so unbelievable that I cannot repeat it here.

I never thought that I was very intelligent.

It has never been, and never will be easy work! But the road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.

He used to sit on my lap. I was sort of ambivalent about that. He was surviving any way he could.

Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.

I've been a schoolteacher. I always try to get the kids to finish talking before the next one starts.

We were discussing civilization and the fact that young men among the Greeks at that time were idiots and uneducated, so the men had emotional and friendly relationships with members of their own sex.

I wasn't a child at 13, were you?

I do tend to lose track since the kids are out of school.

A babe at the breast is as much pleasure as the bearing is pain.

On one occasion I shared a bed with about seven other people, but we were all having a party overnight.

A friend of ours has a hobby doing genealogy, and we found out that we were cousins in the ninth degree, that we had a common ancestor on the Mayflower.

My husband and I were very in love, and I had no reason to suspect that his interests lay anywhere else.

All the tears women shed, they leave no mark on the world.

From these Christians who came to [Avalon] to escape the bigotry of their own kind I learned something, at last, of the Nazarene, the carpenter's son who had attained Godhead in his own life and preached a rule of tolerance; and so I came to see that my quarrel was never with the Christ, but with his foolish and narrow priests who mistook their own narrowness for his.

A woman is never free to bear a child unless she is also free to abort it.

If you listen to dogs barking you will go deaf without learning anything.

Never name the well from which you will not drink.

But this is my truth; I who am Morgaine tell you these things, Morgaine who was in later days called Morgan le Fay.

The Goddess does not shower her gifts on those who reject them.

What you see is from outside yourself, and may come, or not, but is beyond your control. But your fear is yours, and yours alone, like your voice, or your fingers, or your memory, and therefore yours to control. If you feel powerless over your fear, you have not yet admitted that it is yours, to do with as you will.

There is no such thing as a true tale. Truth has many faces and the truth is like to the old road to Avalon; it depends on your own will, and your own thoughts, whither the road will take you.

... but I believe the divine ones will send other great masters to preach the truth to mankind, and that mankind will always receive them with the cross and the fire and the stones

Speak not against anyone whose burden you have not weighed yourself.

Light flared through every limb, a force far too great to be contained in any human frame; but for that moment she was the Great Mother, giving birth to the world.