# Quote — Vonda N. McIntyre, Dreamsnake

> It was not fear that kept them from misusing what they had. It was self-respect.

- Author: [Vonda N. McIntyre](https://www.leafyquotes.com/vonda-n-mcintyre.md)
- Book: [Dreamsnake](https://www.leafyquotes.com/vonda-n-mcintyre/dreamsnake.md)
- Page: 267
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Vonda_N._McIntyre#Dreamsnake_(1978)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/vonda-n-mcintyre/dreamsnake/it-was-not

## More from this book

> The intensity of Melissa’s loyalty troubled Snake. She had never known anyone who was so completely oblivious to self-interest. Perhaps Melissa could not yet think of herself as someone with a right to her own dreams; perhaps so many of her dreams had been taken from her that she no longer dared to have them.

p. 224 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/vonda-n-mcintyre/dreamsnake/the-intensity-of-melissas.md)

> If you want to. That’s the important thing. For you to do what you want to do. Not what you think anyone else wants or expects you to do.

p. 205 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/vonda-n-mcintyre/dreamsnake/if-you-want.md)

> He seemed to be so used to having his own way that he could not deal with bad fortune.

p. 109 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/vonda-n-mcintyre/dreamsnake/he-seemed-to.md)