Marion Zimmer Bradley
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.Collection: Real
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: Men
Well, so it must be, for as man saw reality, so it became.Collection: Reality
And I must believe that man has the power to know the right, to choose between good and evil and know that his choice has made a difference.Collection: Believe
By what men think, we create the world around us, daily new.Collection: Men
The visible world was only an imperfect reflection of the Ideal, which the Philosopher sought to transcend.Collection: Reflection
I cannot regret it. They tell us in the temple that true joy is found only in freedom from the Wheel that is death and rebirth, that we must come to despise earthly joy and suffering, and long only for the peace of the presence of the eternal. Yet I love this life on Earth, Morgan, and I love you with a love that is stronger than death, and if sin is the price of binding us together, life after life across the ages, then I will sin joyfully and without regret, so that it brings me back to you, my beloved!Collection: Love
All the tears women shed, they leave no mark on the world.Collection: Tears
What wise God would consign a man to Hell for ignorance, instead of teaching him better in the afterlife?Collection: Wise
I should know, for I am Morgaine le Fay, priestess of the Isle of Avalon, where the ancient religion of the Mother Goddess is born.Collection: Mother
Knowledge was like a mouthful of dust.Collection: Dust
If you listen to dogs barking you will go deaf without learning anything.Collection: Dog
For there is no higher religion than the Truth.Collection: Wisdom
No man or woman can live another's fateCollection: Fate
One of the earliest lessons I learned was not to read my reviews. Weigh them.Collection: Lessons
Never name the well from which you will not drink.Collection: Names
Fear is a way of not allowing yourself to choose freely what you will do next; a way of letting your body's reflexes, not the needs of your mind, choose for you.Collection: Fear
... 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 stonesCollection: Believe
If you own a machine, you are in turn owned by it, and spend your time serving it.Collection: Machines
A priestess of Avalon does not lie. But I am cast out of Avalon, and for this, and unless it is all to be for nothing, I must lie, and lie well and quicklyCollection: Lying
Arthur, their young king, like a hero out of legend.Collection: Kings
Some knowledge and some song and some beauty must be kept for those days before the world again plunges into darkness.Collection: Song