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
practice soup littles
The practice of diplomacy, I have found, is sometimes like eating soup with a fork: much activity yielding little nourishment.
ideas two fiction
To me, fantasy has always been the genre of escape, science fiction the genre of ideas. So if you can escape and have a little idea as well, maybe you have some kind of a cross-breed between the two.
believe book writing
[T]he scripture worshippers put the writings ahead of God. Instead of interpreting God's actions in nature, for example, they interpret nature in the light of the Scripture. Nature says the rock is billions of years old, but the book says different, so even though men wrote the book, and God made the rock and God gave us minds that have found ways to tell how old it is, we still choose to believe the Scripture.
dream watches edges
We live in a time like dreaming.... The edges of our lives flutter and change as we watch them. Listen to the dream.
rain thinking car
Do you realize it’s been only a century that we’ve been able to go from house to car to office to car to wherever, with the heater on, and the defroster on, protected from the rain and the cold? It hasn’t been much longer than that we’ve had lighting for streets. Think of all that darkness, all that world out there, all that mystery that we’ve turned into well-lighted concrete bunkers, safe and warm and dull.
men race other-worlds
Sitting down and weeping is what women have done for centuries, and it has done no good at all. Nor praying. God has given us the earth. He is not waiting in the next room, ready to fix it for us if we ruin it. If we do not care for it, no one will. On other worlds, other races of men perhaps do better than we have done. He cares for us, but he does not control what we do.
cutting boys games
Boys play with death as though it were a game, cutting their teeth on daggers.
girl smart fall
I think... girls have a hard time being interesting. It’s actually easier to be famous, or notorious, than it is to be interesting. In our world, girls climb very well until they hit puberty-sexual maturity-and then they begin to fall out of the tree. They start role-playing instead of thinking, flirting instead of learning. They start admiring how smart the boys are-or how athletic or how handsome-instead of concentrating on their own intelligence.
men numbers vocabulary
As vocabulary is reduced , so are the number of feelings you can express, the number of events you can describe, the number of the things you can identify! Not only understanding is limited, but also experience. Man grows by language. Whenever he limits language he retrogresses!
running would-be world
I'm not sure a world run by women would be any better. They're human beings!
book writing important
It may be important to write a book that doesn't come up to what I would like to have rather than to write no book at all.
believe expectations sound
To the Chasmites, truth is determined by how well it fits their expectations, and doesn't that sound familiar? ... They have consistently refused to have a god contest, and I fear they will have to encounter the godlet rather forcibly before they believe there is anything there at all.
moving self righteous
The sooner we can separate salvageable skeptics from self-righteous absolutists, the sooner we can move along.
book thinking age
Creation has the truth written all over it - the age of the universe, the history of the world - but nine-tenths of mankind either don't know it or think it's a sham, because it isn't what their book or their prophet says, and it isn't cozy or manipulable enough.