Sheri S. Tepper
Sheri S. Tepper
Sheri Stewart Tepperis an American writer of science fiction, horror and mystery novels. She is known for feminist science fiction, often with an ecofeminist slant...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth16 July 1929
CountryUnited States of America
believe differences long
The Regime has become so smug it can't tell the difference among the revolutionary, the innovative, or the merely various. The high command knows so little about the outside that if I came back with a fully equipped chemical laboratory and told them I'd found it in a cave, they'd probably believe that, so long as I brought it back peicmeal in my saddle bags, thus proving I hadn't known it was there beforehand.
past expectations soul
With us the inner nature accords with the outer expectation. The body follows the mind, and the mind seeks the soul, which it strives toward but has not yet won. With you it is otherwise. The mind follows the body in pursuit of the soul you have been told you already have. Because you cannot find it, you assume you have lost it somewhere in your past, and this keeps you from achieving it in your future.
mother children rain
Though this new forest grew mightily, elsewhere the mighty jungles fell. Elsewhere the coastal rain forests that furred the body of the world were torn and riven. Elsewhere the last of the old growth the last of the world's own garment were ripped away. It was in this time, now, that the mother of us all was stripped naked and left to die in shame of her children, she who had been robed in glory like this, adorned like this. I bent my head upon the roots and wept, sorrowing for the trees.
believe men vision
I tell you, lad, that men will believe is one says, "The Gods say..." They will believe if one says, "I had a Vision..." They will believe if one says, "It was told me on a tablet of hidden gold..." But, if one says, "History teaches," then they will not believe.
expression divinity variety
The expression of divinity is in variety.
believe men trying
All around the Mediterranean you'll find cultures that believe men can't control themselves and shouldn't have to try.
kindness evil justice
Whoever declares another heretic is himself a devil. Whoever places a relic or artifact above justice, kindness, mercy, or truth is himself a devil and the thing elevated is a work of evil magic.
men thinking helping
Men like to think well of themselves, and poets help them do it.
science ideas fiction
Science fiction still is an idea genre.
book responsibility writing
There are writers who say they have no social responsibility except to write a good book, but that doesn't satisfy me.
views people long
The only people who have the long view are some scientists and some science fiction writers.
pain apples imagination
Conflict acting on intelligence creates imagination. Faced with conflict, creatures are forced to imagine what will happen, where the next threat will come from. If there has never been conflict, imagination never develops. Wits arise in answer to danger, to pain, to tragedy. No one ever got smarter eating easy apples.
littles necks maidens
The sidesaddle was designed to protect a maiden's virginity, while risking the maiden's neck. Rather much for rather little, I thought.
definitions orthodoxy open-minded
I will raise up prophets to make conflicting pronouncements that inevitably will be garbled in transcription, resulting in mutually exclusive definitions of orthodoxy from which the open-minded will flee in dismay.