Marion Zimmer Bradley
Marion Zimmer Bradley
Marion Eleanor Zimmer Bradleywas an American author of fantasy, historical fantasy, science fiction, and science fantasy novels, and is best known for the Arthurian fiction novel The Mists of Avalon, and the Darkover series. While some critics have noted a feminist perspective in her writing her popularity has been posthumously marred by multiple accusations against her of child sexual abuse & rape by two of her children, Mark & Moira Greyland, among many others. Zimmer Bradley's first child, David R...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth3 June 1930
CountryUnited States of America
I never thought that I was very intelligent
We were discussing civilization and the fact that young men among the Greeks at that time were idiots and uneducated, so the men had emotional and friendly relationships with members of their own sex
On one occasion I shared a bed with about seven other people, but we were all having a party overnight
A woman is never free to bear a child unless she is also free to abort it.
One of the earliest lessons I learned was not to read my reviews. Weigh them.
Speak not against anyone whose burden you have not weighed yourself.
I wasn't a child at 13, were you?
Flowers and fruit are only the beginning. In the seed lies the life and the future.
The visible world was only an imperfect reflection of the Ideal, which the Philosopher sought to transcend.
From these Christians who came to [Avalon] to escape the bigotry of their own kind I learned something, at last, of the Nazarene, the carpenter's son who had attained Godhead in his own life and preached a rule of tolerance; and so I came to see that my quarrel was never with the Christ, but with his foolish and narrow priests who mistook their own narrowness for his.
Of all things we mortals are called upon to do, the most difficult is forgiveness; in order to truly do it, you will probably have to behave as if you already have forgiven for quite a while before you have actually done so.
I know all about endings. It is beginnings that elude me.
If you listen to dogs barking you will go deaf without learning anything.
Never name the well from which you will not drink.