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
He used to sit on my lap. I was sort of ambivalent about that. He was surviving any way he could.
I do tend to lose track since the kids are out of school.
My husband and I were very in love, and I had no reason to suspect that his interests lay anywhere else.
Love is the only prayer I know.
Magic is a matter of focusing the disciplined will. But sometimes the will must be abandoned. The secret lies in knowing when to exercise control, and when to let go.
I never left you; I never will leave you. While life lasts, and beyond, I am here.
The older I grow the more I become certain that it makes no difference what words we use to tell the same truths.
Without a dream to light your way, the word is a very dark place.
There is no such thing as a true tale. Truth has many faces and the truth is like to the old road to Avalon; it depends on your own will, and your own thoughts, whither the road will take you.
I think too many people presume to read the divine Scriptures and fall into such terrors as this,' said Patricius sternly. 'Those who presume on their learning will learn, I trust, to listen to their priests for the true interpretations.' The Merlin smiled gently. 'I cannot join you in that wish, brother. I am dedicated to the belief that it is God's will that all men should strive for wisdom in themselves, not look to it from some other. Babes, perhaps, must have their food chewed for them by a nurse, but men may drink and eat of wisdom for themselves.
I have called on the Goddess and found her within myself
If you own a machine, you are in turn owned by it, and spend your time serving it...
I've been a schoolteacher. I always try to get the kids to finish talking before the next one starts
I never thought that I was very intelligent