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Our world is rotten, but I've no confidence that the new world will be better!

Marion Zimmer Bradley

The gods do not require that we all be conquerors, or even that we all be wise, but only that we serve the truth that we are given until we can pass it on.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

There are ignorant priests and ignorant people, who are all too ready to cry sorcery if a woman is only a little wiser than they are!

Marion Zimmer Bradley

My love for you is a prayer, she thought. Love is the only prayer I know. She thought she had never loved him so much as at this moment, when she heard the convent door close, hard and final, and felt the wall shutting her in.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

To know you are ignorant is the beginning of wisdom, Viviane said. Then, when you begin to learn, you will not have to forget all the things you think you know.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

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

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, and yours alone, like your voice, or your fingers, or your memory, and therefore yours to control. If you feel powerless over your fear, you have not yet admitted that it is yours, to do with as you will.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

Marion Zimmer Bradley

Marion Zimmer Bradley

Born: June 3, 1930

Died: September 25, 1999 (aged 69)

Bio: Marion Eleanor Zimmer Bradley was an American author of fantasy, historical fantasy, science fiction, and science fantasy novels, and is best known for the Arthurian fiction novel The Mists of Avalon, and the Darkover series.

Known for:

The Mists of Avalon (1982)
The Forest House (1994)
Lady of Avalon (1997)
Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover (1993)
Priestess of Avalon

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