16 Quotes by Judith Tarr

The Seventies were an interesting time to be a reader or writer of fantasy. Tolkien was the great master. Lin Carter was resurrecting wonders of British and American fantasy from the early twentieth century in his Ballantine Adult Fantasy Series.

Yes, I do have a soft spot for complicated villains who can't help themselves.

A baby writer should take inspiration from her predecessors but also find ways to tell her own stories in her own way.

Separation of Church and state was a radical idea when the U.S. was first founded, but it's become The Way Things Are.

It's sad when a woman writing fantasy in the United States in the 1970s has less actual feminist cred than Sir Walter Scott.

Rawn did her own thing in her own way. She cast the female gaze on a genre heavy with all-male quest fellowships, trophy females, and the occasional Smurfette. Her world was male-dominated and highly patriarchal, but she populated it with notable numbers of well-drawn female characters.

Magic is what it is, and those who work it can be male or female; it doesn't matter. What matters is power.