Money Quote by Sheri S. Tepper

“We're so old that the winds of age echo along our ribs and pick at our eye sockets. We could be gone tomorrow. A…

— Sheri S. Tepper

Conflict acting on intelligence creates imagination. Faced with conflict, creatures are forced to imagine what will happen, where the next threat will come from.…

— Sheri S. Tepper

“cultures define their gods when they’re young and primitive, when their main concern is survival. They endow their gods with survival characteristics like omnipotence…

— Sheri S. Tepper

Do you realize it’s been only a century that we’ve been able to go from house to car to office to car to wherever,…

— Sheri S. Tepper

[T]he scripture worshippers put the writings ahead of God. Instead of interpreting God's actions in nature, for example, they interpret nature in the light…

— Sheri S. Tepper

“They will set aside what they have believed about the world, divesting themselves of all preconceptions, all judgments… They will do it, then they…

— Sheri S. Tepper

“If the law does not do justice, the people will mock the law.”

— Sheri S. Tepper

“Faith healers. God-loves-you religions. State-supported lotteries. All that enormous energy expended to conquer nothing at all, stadia full of people watching no conquering going…

— Sheri S. Tepper

The sooner we can separate salvageable skeptics from self-righteous absolutists, the sooner we can move along.

— Sheri S. Tepper

There are writers who say they have no social responsibility except to write a good book, but that doesn't satisfy me.

— Sheri S. Tepper

The expression of divinity is in variety.

— Sheri S. Tepper

I will raise up prophets to make conflicting pronouncements that inevitably will be garbled in transcription, resulting in mutually exclusive definitions of orthodoxy from…

— Sheri S. Tepper