Quotes from Elizabeth Moon

You can also make explicit certain social problems which, again, would be prejudged or not encountered at all in real life, because people have set up defenses against it. Fantasy allows you to get past defenses.

I had, of course, no model for that sort of woman being married, but I can make that up as I go along.

Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus.

Having a mother who had been an aeronautical engineer convinced me that more things should be open to women.

So when I got out of the military, I went back to school in biology, and earned a biology degree at the University of Texas, and then did some graduate work in it.

When I was quite young, she was working in a hardware store, so I grew up knowing about hardware.

To the gods belong power, and to us the work of our hands.

No, but a cello is the perfect string bass for an accordion. Works with it beautifully.

It's hard to hold the focus that strongly on a single character for that long.

I can become very emotional about math, although I'm not that good at it.

Fantasy allows you to get past defenses.

But in fantasy, you can make a complete break, and you can put people in a situation where they are confronted with things that they would not confront in the real world.