173 Quotes by Marion Zimmer Bradley

I have called on the Goddess and found her within myself.

You are sensitive – but make that your servant, not your master.

At last she drifted into sleep, and in the country of sleep she found herself standing in the orchard where she had spoken with Uther, where she had dried his tears with her veil.

Beware what you speak,′ said the Merlin very softly, ’for indeed the words we speak make shadows of what is to come, and by speaking them we bring them to pass, my king.

A priestess of Avalon does not lie. But I am cast out of Avalon, and for this, and unless it is all to be for nothing, I must lie, and lie well and quickly.

The Gods give of their best, not their worst, to men!

Fear is a way of not allowing yourself to choose freely what you will do next; a way of letting your body’s reflexes, not the needs of your mind, choose for you.

But whatever it is that they believe, the views they hold are altering this world; not only in the spirit, but on the material plane. As they deny the world of the spirit, and the realms of Avalon, so those realms cease to exist for them. They still exist, of course; but not in the same world with the world of the followers of Christ.

I could write pages and pages about the delights of being a full-time housewife and mother and trying to write and support a family with two babies – but I don’t use that kind of language in public.