75 Quotes by Sheri S. Tepper

I think... girls have a hard time being interesting. It’s actually easier to be famous, or notorious, than it is to be interesting. In our world, girls climb very well until they hit puberty-sexual maturity-and then they begin to fall out of the tree. They start role-playing instead of thinking, flirting instead of learning. They start admiring how smart the boys are-or how athletic or how handsome-instead of concentrating on their own intelligence.

To me, fantasy has always been the genre of escape, science fiction the genre of ideas. So if you can escape and have a little idea as well, maybe you have some kind of a cross-breed between the two.

We live in a time like dreaming.... The edges of our lives flutter and change as we watch them. Listen to the dream.

Sitting down and weeping is what women have done for centuries, and it has done no good at all. Nor praying. God has given us the earth. He is not waiting in the next room, ready to fix it for us if we ruin it. If we do not care for it, no one will. On other worlds, other races of men perhaps do better than we have done. He cares for us, but he does not control what we do.

The practice of diplomacy, I have found, is sometimes like eating soup with a fork: much activity yielding little nourishment.

I'm not sure a world run by women would be any better. They're human beings!

It may be important to write a book that doesn't come up to what I would like to have rather than to write no book at all.

To the Chasmites, truth is determined by how well it fits their expectations, and doesn't that sound familiar? ... They have consistently refused to have a god contest, and I fear they will have to encounter the godlet rather forcibly before they believe there is anything there at all.

The sooner we can separate salvageable skeptics from self-righteous absolutists, the sooner we can move along.