Marion Zimmer Bradley
Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.Collection: Science
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.Collection: Hope
A babe at the breast is as much pleasure as the bearing is pain.
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.
The scandal's so unbelievable that I cannot repeat it here.
On one occasion I shared a bed with about seven other people, but we were all having a party overnight.
My husband and I were very in love, and I had no reason to suspect that his interests lay anywhere else.
I've been a schoolteacher. I always try to get the kids to finish talking before the next one starts.
I wasn't a child at 13, were you?
I never thought that I was very intelligent.
I do tend to lose track since the kids are out of school.
He used to sit on my lap. I was sort of ambivalent about that. He was surviving any way he could.
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.
To know you are ignorant is the beginning of wisdom.Collection: Wisdom
The Goddess does not shower her gifts on those who reject them.Collection: Doe
There are ignorant priests and ignorant people, who are all too ready to cry sorcery if a woman is only a little wiser than they are!Collection: People
Beware what you speak,' said the Merlin very softly, 'for indeed the words we speak make shadows of what is to come, and by speaking them we bring them to pass, my king.Collection: Kings
Without a dream to light your way, the world is a very dark place.Collection: Dream
Magic is a matter of focusing the disciplined will. But sometimes the will must be abandoned. The secret lies in knowing when to exercise control, and when to let go.Collection: Letting Go
Love is the only prayer I know.Collection: Prayer
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.Collection: Hope
I have called on the Goddess and found her within myselfCollection: Paganism
I never left you; I never will leave you. While life lasts, and beyond, I am here.Collection: Lasts
The older I grow the more I become certain that it makes no difference what words we use to tell the same truths.Collection: Differences
Remain true to yourself, child. If you know your own heart, you will always have one friend who does not lie.Collection: Children
Speak not against anyone whose burden you have not weighed yourself.Collection: Faults
Flowers and fruit are only the beginning. In the seed lies the life and the future.Collection: Life
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.Collection: Memories
Darling, I wish I could help you. Try to remember this: to live, you need every experience. Some will come in glory and in beauty, and some in pain and what seems like ugliness. But - they are. Life consists of opposites in balance.Collection: Pain
There is no sorrow like the memory of love and the knowledge that it is gone forever.Collection: Memories
I think too many people presume to read the divine Scriptures and fall into such terrors as this,' said Patricius sternly. 'Those who presume on their learning will learn, I trust, to listen to their priests for the true interpretations.' The Merlin smiled gently. 'I cannot join you in that wish, brother. I am dedicated to the belief that it is God's will that all men should strive for wisdom in themselves, not look to it from some other. Babes, perhaps, must have their food chewed for them by a nurse, but men may drink and eat of wisdom for themselves.Collection: Brother
If you would have the message of the gods to direct your life, look for that which repeats ... It comes again and again until you have made it part of your soul and your enduring spirit.Collection: Soul
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.Collection: Avalon
There's no "magic secret"; writing is like everything else; ten percent inspiration or talent, and ninety percent hard work. Persistence; keeping at it till you get there. As Agnes de Mille said, it means working every day—bored, tired, weary, or with a fever of a hundred and two.Collection: Inspiration
A woman is never free to bear a child unless she is also free to abort it.Collection: Children
[T]he House of Maidens was for little girls whose whole duty in life was to spill things, break things, and forget things . . . until they had spilled, broken, and forgotten everything they could, and thus made room in their lives for a little wisdom.Collection: Girl
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.Collection: Christian
Of all things we mortals are called upon to do, the most difficult is forgiveness; in order to truly do it, you will probably have to behave as if you already have forgiven for quite a while before you have actually done so.Collection: Order
But this is my truth; I who am Morgaine tell you these things, Morgaine who was in later days called Morgan le Fay.Collection: My Truth
The truth is not so good a story.Collection: Stories
Rome was mud and smoky skies; the rank smell of the Tiber and the exotically spiced cooking fires of a hundred different nationalities. Rome was white marble and gilding and heady perfumes; the blare of trumpets and the shrieking of market-women and the eternal, sub-aural hum of more people, speaking more languages than Gaius had ever imagined existed, crammed together on seven hills whose contours had long ago disappeared beneath this encrustation if humanity. Rome was the pulsing heart of the world.Collection: Heart
Morgaine laughed and mocked, but when it was a real trouble, no one could be kinder.Collection: Real
On one occasion I shared a bed with about seven other people, but we were all having a party overnightCollection: Party
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.Collection: Mother
I have neither talent or taste for kingship, cousin. I am a warrior, and to dwell always in one place and live at court would weary me to death!Collection: Cousin
I never thought that I was very intelligentCollection: Intelligent
I know all about endings. It is beginnings that elude me.Collection: Elude
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 sexCollection: Sex
And so, perhaps, the truth winds somewhere between the road to Glastonbury, Isle of the Priests, and the road to Avalon, lost forever in the mists of the Summer Sea.Collection: Summer
I've been a schoolteacher. I always try to get the kids to finish talking before the next one startsCollection: Kids