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Elizabeth Moon Quote: “I had, of course, no model for that sort of woman being married, but I can make that up as I go along.”

51. “I had, of course, no model for that sort of woman being married, but I can make that up as I go along.”

— Elizabeth Moon

Elizabeth Moon Quote: “So when I got out of the military, I went back to school in biology, and earned a biology degree at the University of Texas, and then did some graduate work in it.”

52. “So when I got out of the military, I went back to school in biology, and earned a biology degree at the University of Texas, and then did some graduate work in it.”

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Elizabeth Moon Quote: “Next,” she said, “we have to come up with tactics that work.” “We could just do something stupid again, wait for them to pounce, and then surprise them by suddenly becoming brilliant,” Martin said.”

53. “Next,” she said, “we have to come up with tactics that work.” “We could just do something stupid again, wait for them to pounce, and then surprise them by suddenly becoming brilliant,” Martin said.”

— Elizabeth Moon

Elizabeth Moon Quote: “What it boils down to is that parenting a child with autism is a difficult job; writing about it is far easier.”

54. “What it boils down to is that parenting a child with autism is a difficult job; writing about it is far easier.”

— Elizabeth Moon

Elizabeth Moon Quote: “Motivation is the power behind plot.”

55. “Motivation is the power behind plot.”

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Elizabeth Moon Quote: “I regarded drugs as somewhat like rattlesnakes – it’s possible to pick one up without getting bit, but why bother?”

56. “I regarded drugs as somewhat like rattlesnakes – it’s possible to pick one up without getting bit, but why bother?”

— Elizabeth Moon

Elizabeth Moon Quote: “Free of the demands, the judgments, and the petty tyrannies of others.”

57. “Free of the demands, the judgments, and the petty tyrannies of others.”

— Elizabeth Moon

Elizabeth Moon Quote: “I’ve taught Sunday school, I’ve sung in the choir, I directed a choir.”

58. “I’ve taught Sunday school, I’ve sung in the choir, I directed a choir.”

— Elizabeth Moon

Elizabeth Moon Quote: “I can become very emotional about math, although I’m not that good at it.”

59. “I can become very emotional about math, although I’m not that good at it.”

— Elizabeth Moon

Elizabeth Moon Quote: “Intelligent men think up ways to get themselves in tangles a stupid man would never imagine.”

60. “Intelligent men think up ways to get themselves in tangles a stupid man would never imagine.”

— Elizabeth Moon

Elizabeth Moon Quote: “I actually feel that the different kinds of stories come out of different parts of my brain.”

61. “I actually feel that the different kinds of stories come out of different parts of my brain.”

— Elizabeth Moon

Elizabeth Moon Quote: “I used to not back down from a challenge.”

62. “I used to not back down from a challenge.”

— Elizabeth Moon

Elizabeth Moon Quote: “When – notice that I do not say if, being granted almost as much stubbornness as you, by Gird’s grace – when you find that you can swear your honor to Gird’s fellowship, it will be my pleasure to give and receive your strokes. Is that satisfactory, or have you more conditions for a Marshal-General of Gird, and Captain-Temporal of the High Lord?” Paks.”

63. “When – notice that I do not say if, being granted almost as much stubbornness as you, by Gird’s grace – when you find that you can swear your honor to Gird’s fellowship, it will be my pleasure to give and receive your strokes. Is that satisfactory, or have you more conditions for a Marshal-General of Gird, and Captain-Temporal of the High Lord?” Paks.”

— Elizabeth Moon

Elizabeth Moon Quote: “Apparently they didn’t realize that people who buy thousands of rounds of ammo are likely to know how to use it. We.”

64. “Apparently they didn’t realize that people who buy thousands of rounds of ammo are likely to know how to use it. We.”

— Elizabeth Moon

Elizabeth Moon Quote: “Now my mother, interestingly enough, was not a feminist in her own mind.”

65. “Now my mother, interestingly enough, was not a feminist in her own mind.”

— Elizabeth Moon

Elizabeth Moon Quote: “If someone means well, but does ill, the ill is still done – and the consequences still exist. Besides, if intent forgives wrong, then any wrongdoer can claim good intent.”

66. “If someone means well, but does ill, the ill is still done – and the consequences still exist. Besides, if intent forgives wrong, then any wrongdoer can claim good intent.”

— Elizabeth Moon

Elizabeth Moon Quote: “To the gods belong power, and to us the work of our hands.”

67. “To the gods belong power, and to us the work of our hands.”

— Elizabeth Moon

Elizabeth Moon Quote: “The quietness spread, from gray eyes that held no hatred for those who spat at her face or tasted her blood, from a voice that could scream in pain yet mouth no curses after, that spoke, between screams, in a steady confirmation of all good. Those.”

68. “The quietness spread, from gray eyes that held no hatred for those who spat at her face or tasted her blood, from a voice that could scream in pain yet mouth no curses after, that spoke, between screams, in a steady confirmation of all good. Those.”

— Elizabeth Moon

Elizabeth Moon Quote: “Metaphorically, Tom said, if you take knowledge as light, and ignorance as dark, there does sometimes seem to be a real presence to the dark – to ignorance. Something more tactile and muscley than just lack of knowledge. A sort of will to ignorance. It would explain some politicians.”

69. “Metaphorically, Tom said, if you take knowledge as light, and ignorance as dark, there does sometimes seem to be a real presence to the dark – to ignorance. Something more tactile and muscley than just lack of knowledge. A sort of will to ignorance. It would explain some politicians.”

— Elizabeth Moon

Elizabeth Moon Quote: “It’s possible to like bad people, but liking them doesn’t make them good.”

70. “It’s possible to like bad people, but liking them doesn’t make them good.”

— Elizabeth Moon

Elizabeth Moon Quote: “When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books.”

71. “When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books.”

— Elizabeth Moon

Elizabeth Moon Quote: “You can also make explicit certain social problems which, again, would be prejudged or not encountered at all in real life, because people have set up defenses against it. Fantasy allows you to get past defenses.”

72. “You can also make explicit certain social problems which, again, would be prejudged or not encountered at all in real life, because people have set up defenses against it. Fantasy allows you to get past defenses.”

— Elizabeth Moon

Elizabeth Moon Quote: “You don’t have to,′ I say. ‘You are normal. You have a job with tenure. You have Lucia and this house.’ I cannot say the rest that I think, that he is easy in his body, that he sees and hears and tastes and feels what others do, so his reality matches theirs.”

73. “You don’t have to,′ I say. ‘You are normal. You have a job with tenure. You have Lucia and this house.’ I cannot say the rest that I think, that he is easy in his body, that he sees and hears and tastes and feels what others do, so his reality matches theirs.”

— Elizabeth Moon

Elizabeth Moon Quote: “What someone believes another person thinks is often wrong. That’s why the law – our system of law – relies on the closest thing we can get to a fact: observed behavior, acts, and words.”

74. “What someone believes another person thinks is often wrong. That’s why the law – our system of law – relies on the closest thing we can get to a fact: observed behavior, acts, and words.”

— Elizabeth Moon

Elizabeth Moon Quote: “If you cannot read it, how could you catalog it?”

75. “If you cannot read it, how could you catalog it?”

— Elizabeth Moon

Elizabeth Moon Quote: “Should I tell you the truth I know, or try to guess the untruth you want?”

76. “Should I tell you the truth I know, or try to guess the untruth you want?”

— Elizabeth Moon

Elizabeth Moon Quote: “Courage is not something you have, like a sum of money, more or less in a pouch – it cannot be lost, like money spilling out. Courage is inherent in all creatures; it is the quality that keeps them alive, because they endure. It is courage, Paksenarrion, that splits the acorn and sends the rootlet down into soil to search for sustenance. You can damage the creature, yes, and it may die of it, but as long as it lives and endures, each living part has as much courage as it can hold.”

77. “Courage is not something you have, like a sum of money, more or less in a pouch – it cannot be lost, like money spilling out. Courage is inherent in all creatures; it is the quality that keeps them alive, because they endure. It is courage, Paksenarrion, that splits the acorn and sends the rootlet down into soil to search for sustenance. You can damage the creature, yes, and it may die of it, but as long as it lives and endures, each living part has as much courage as it can hold.”

— Elizabeth Moon

Elizabeth Moon Quote: “Yes, she had needed that. She had needed it all her life, without knowing that was what she needed. The joy of creation, of play, had been the empty place unfilled by family and social duties. She would have loved her children better, she thought now, if she had realized how much she herself needed to play, to follow her own childish desire to handle beautiful things and make more beauty.”

78. “Yes, she had needed that. She had needed it all her life, without knowing that was what she needed. The joy of creation, of play, had been the empty place unfilled by family and social duties. She would have loved her children better, she thought now, if she had realized how much she herself needed to play, to follow her own childish desire to handle beautiful things and make more beauty.”

— Elizabeth Moon

Elizabeth Moon Quote: “Don’t fear trouble – be ready for it.”

79. “Don’t fear trouble – be ready for it.”

— Elizabeth Moon

Elizabeth Moon Quote: “Not for the first time, Ofelia wondered if humans had thought of anything really new in the past ten thousand years. Had they only wandered the stars because they were tired of their stale jokes and curses?”

80. “Not for the first time, Ofelia wondered if humans had thought of anything really new in the past ten thousand years. Had they only wandered the stars because they were tired of their stale jokes and curses?”

— Elizabeth Moon

Elizabeth Moon Quote: “Treason is always a conspiracy; it’s too big a task for one man, and throughout history has been the work of groups.”

81. “Treason is always a conspiracy; it’s too big a task for one man, and throughout history has been the work of groups.”

— Elizabeth Moon

Elizabeth Moon Quote: “And like all of us, your existence changes the world.”

82. “And like all of us, your existence changes the world.”

— Elizabeth Moon

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