Marion Zimmer Bradley

“Men destroy only what they fear.”

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

All gods are one god.

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

“Sin is in the wish to do no harm.”

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

The truth is not so good a story.

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

Knowledge was like a mouthful of dust.

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

I wasn't a child at 13, were you?

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

Love is the only prayer I know.

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

A woman is never free to bear a child unless she is also free to abort it.

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

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

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

By what men think, we create the world around us, daily new.

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

“I suppose all societies adapt their morals to their needs.”

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

I never thought that I was very intelligent

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

“And the truth is only that we grow and die and wither even as this grass here.”

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

I know nothing at all about oral sex. I broke up both my own marriages over it.

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

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

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

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

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

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

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

I have neither talent or taste for kingship, cousin. I am a warrior, and to dwell always in one place and live…

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

The Goddess has a fourth face, which is secret, and you should pray to her, as I do — as I do,…

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

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

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

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

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

“If you seek to avoid your fate or to delay suffering, it only condemns you to suffer it redoubled in another life.”

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

“ A life path may have strange twists and turnings, and we do not always end up where we intend to go…”

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

“Dea è ogni cosa in natura è ogni cosa in natura è sacra. Guarda questo è il suo volto. Ascolta questa è…

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

Beware what you speak,' said the Merlin very softly, 'for indeed the words we speak make shadows of what is to come,…

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

“...if there be any Gods at all, of which I am not even certain, I cannot believe they would stoop to meddle…

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

Of all things we mortals are called upon to do, the most difficult is forgiveness; in order to truly do it, you…

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

“... and it seemed to her that time stopped, that her body melted into his as if she were without nerve or…

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

[T]he House of Maidens was for little girls whose whole duty in life was to spill things, break things, and forget things…

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

“For this is the thing the priests do not know, with their One God and One Truth: that there is no such…

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

What you see is from outside yourself, and may come, or not, but is beyond your control. But your fear is yours,…

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

I cannot regret it. They tell us in the temple that true joy is found only in freedom from the Wheel that…

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

“And then a memory from Avalon surfaced in her mind, something she had not thought of for a decade; one of the…

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

“They have not forgotten the Mysteries,' she said, ‘they have found them too difficult. They want a God who will care for…

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

“It had to do with the knowledge that the world was as it was because of what men believed it was... year…

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

“And now the priests, thinking that this infringes upon the power of their God, who created the world once and for all…

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

“By and large, the kind of science fiction which makes tomorrow's headlines as near as this morning's coffee has enlarged popular awareness…

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

“But whatever it is that they believe, the views they hold are altering this world; not only in the spirit, but on…

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

“But I mind," Bart said savagely. "I'd like to see a world where I could have my picture taken, say, with Tommy…

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

“Pride, she thought drearily, was a cold bedfellow.”

— Marion Zimmer Bradley