Quotes from Marion Zimmer Bradley

Well, so it must be, for as man saw reality, so it became.

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.

No man or woman can live another's fate

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.

All gods are one god.

What wise God would consign a man to Hell for ignorance, instead of teaching him better in the afterlife?

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

The Goddess has a fourth face, which is secret, and you should pray to her, as I do — as I do, Igraine — that Morgause will never wear that face.

But even the longest day wears to sunset.

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

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

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

For there is no higher religion than the Truth.

Knowledge was like a mouthful of dust.

I never left you; I never will leave you. While life lasts, and beyond, I am here.

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.

Flowers and fruit are only the beginning. In the seed lies the life and the future.

No house is big enough for the rule of two women.

If you own a machine, you are in turn owned by it, and spend your time serving it.

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

There is no sorrow like the memory of love and the knowledge that it is gone forever.

I never thought that I was very intelligent.

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.

The truth is not so good a story.