Sheri S. Tepper
Quotes
We obey orders, and we don’t ask if the officer is crazy or not!
p. 75
The Gate to Women’s CountryMyra subsided into outraged and sulky silence. Her romantic dream of motherhood had been riven into sharp-edged fragments by late-night feedings, constant diaper washing, and a baby who persisted in looking and acting like a baby, not like a young hero.
p. 88
The Gate to Women’s Country“Each day we investigate all premises within three blocks of the palace. Lookin’ for anarchists and revolutionaries, so they tell us, not that we’ve ever found any. Found a nest of revisionists once, but nobody cared.”
“What were they revising?” she asked, truly curious.
“Don’t know. Didn’t ask ’em.”
p. 87
Marianne, the Madame, and the Momentary GodsThe difference between a true religion—and there are many which share aspects of truth—and a dangerous cult is only this: In the one the individual is freed to grow and live and learn; in the other the individual is subordinated to the will of a hierarchy, enslaved to the purposes of that hierarchy, forbidden to learn except what the cult would teach. You have only to look at the rules which govern the servants of a religion to know whether its god is God indeed, or devil!
p. 69
Marianne, the Magus and the ManticoreMorgot and Myra would tell her there wasn’t any reason to make promises or seek changes because the Great Mother didn’t bargain. The deity didn’t change her mind for women’s convenience. Her way was immutable. As the temple servers said, “No sentimentality, no romance, no false hopes, no self-petting lies, merely that which is!” Which left very little room, Stavia thought, for womanly initiative.
p. 9
The Gate to Women’s Country“Sometimes I despair, Ellat. Will I ever be able to surprise you?”
“Yes. If you’d listen to me, ever, it would surprise me enormously.”
p. 137
Marianne, the Madame, and the Momentary GodsWhat kind of a universe would it be if we could not do small kindnesses for one another?
p. 123
Marianne, the Madame, and the Momentary Gods“How did this happen?” she demanded from the world at large.
“Software,” the hardware consultant opined.
“Hardware,” the software support person snarled.
p. 51
Marianne, the Madame, and the Momentary Gods“The answers to everything are in the books,” he said to her. “It is in knowing which books, of course, and where to look.”
p. 116
Marianne, the Magus and the ManticoreWhat was scheduled had no connection with what actually happened.
p. 67
Marianne, the Madame, and the Momentary Gods“We are kinsmen, therefore allies. You will forgive me if I do not say ‘kinspersons.’ I learned my English in a more elegant setting, in a more elegant time.”
p. 17
Marianne, the Magus and the Manticore“I do not like the thought of compulsion.”
He shook his head at me. “Not compulsion, Jinian. Information, more like. It is as though I had been given a map which showed both the good roads and the swamps. Is it compulsion to avoid the swamps if one knows they are there?”
p. 42
Dervish Daughter
