173 Quotes by Marion Zimmer Bradley

I know all about endings. It is beginnings that elude me.

On one occasion I shared a bed with about seven other people, but we were all having a party overnight

The visible world was only an imperfect reflection of the Ideal, which the Philosopher sought to transcend.

I cannot regret it. They tell us in the temple that true joy is found only in freedom from the Wheel that is death and rebirth, that we must come to despise earthly joy and suffering, and long only for the peace of the presence of the eternal. Yet I love this life on Earth, Morgan, and I love you with a love that is stronger than death, and if sin is the price of binding us together, life after life across the ages, then I will sin joyfully and without regret, so that it brings me back to you, my beloved!

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

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

Flowers and fruit are only the beginning. In the seed lies the life and the future.

One of the earliest lessons I learned was not to read my reviews. Weigh them.

Light flared through every limb, a force far too great to be contained in any human frame; but for that moment she was the Great Mother, giving birth to the world.