103 Quotes by Elizabeth Moon

So I didn't think it was odd for women to have technological knowledge and yet be mothers, and very devoted family members and have friends.

As I said at the BYU conference some years back, we make aliens out of people by treating them as alien, rather than recognizing similarities.

There were hardly any sports for girls when I was growing up, but I loved to race the guys and climb trees and all that sort of stuff.

The man who had spread those rumors first had been a sociopath, a clever criminal – why, now that everyone knew about him, did they still believe his lies?

I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can’t really do much with those in a fantasy setting.

Even if a tamed wolf makes a good sheepdog, he will never understand how the sheep feel... You are most fortunate. For having been, as you thought, a coward, and helpless to fight – you know what that is like. You know what bitterness that feeling breeds – you know in your own heart what kind of evil it brings. And so you are most fit to fight it where it occurs.

I like the Beatles, of course, but that’s when I grew up.

Metaphorically, Tom said, if you take knowledge as light, and ignorance as dark, there does sometimes seem to be a real presence to the dark – to ignorance. Something more tactile and muscley than just lack of knowledge. A sort of will to ignorance. It would explain some politicians.

And as Paksenarrion is there, perhaps she will ride back with me to Fin Panir to see the necklace.