Quotes from Marion Zimmer Bradley

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

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.

Some knowledge and some song and some beauty must be kept for those days before the world again plunges into darkness.

To know you are ignorant is the beginning of wisdom.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

There has to be something wrong with a system that means you can take guilt on and off like an overcoat.

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.

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.

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

A story with no moral isn't worth writing; a story with no plot isn't worth reading. And if people get your point before they get your story, you are to hire a soapbox instead.

Remain true to yourself, child. If you know your own heart, you will always have one friend who does not lie.

Men destroy only what they fear.

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

A trail without beginning has no end.

Will you walk the road to your destiny, or must the Gods drag you to it unwilling?

Perhaps mankind must have a time of darkness so that we will one day again know what a blessing is the light.

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.

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