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“Morgot 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!””

Sheri S. Tepper book The Gate to Women's Country

Which left very little room, Stavia thought, for womanly initiative.
Source: The Gate to Women's Country (1988), Chapter 2 (p. 9)

Women , Hope , Way , Change

““When your people began to press upon us, long, long ago, we moved into remote enclaves. To us, numbers are not strength; wisdom is strength. What profiteth a race to be numerous and stupid, la? Behold how great we are, saith the lemming!” She laughed.”

Sheri S. Tepper

Source: Gibbon's Decline & Fall (1996), Chapter 18 (p. 392)

Wisdom , People , Stupidity

“He did a lot of disputation and he always raised his voice when his logic was weak.”

Sheri S. Tepper book Grass

Source: Grass (1989), Chapter 20 (p. 447)

“Duty was simply not enough. There had to be more than that!”

Sheri S. Tepper book Grass

Source: Grass (1989), Chapter 20 (p. 446)

“He calls it the university of the Real One, and it teaches only things that are known to be true, which means it is largely devoted to mathematics and sciences.”

Sheri S. Tepper

Elnith in Ch. 46 : nell latimer’s journal, p. 498
The Visitor (2002)

Universe , Science , Mathematics

“I mentioned that the small god said she brought the asteroid because of what man had become, and they retorted that man might not have become that if we had been relentless in our education of our young people and had not perpetuated ignorance under the guise of cultural sensitivity and the politically correct.”

Sheri S. Tepper

Elnith in Ch. 46 : nell latimer’s journal, p. 498
The Visitor (2002)

Education , God , People

“Your leaders worshipped the greed devil when they sold their votes and influence to spread bad stuff; they worshipped the power devil when they valued votes over the health of the planet; they made a pretence of mercy and justice by advocating human rights while they sucked up to dominance devils whose law was torture and whose rule was the enslavement of women.”

Sheri S. Tepper

The Visitor in Ch. 44 : the visitor, pp. 461-462
The Visitor (2002)

Justice , Law , Bad luck , Health

“Aside from earning their livings, what did your people do, mostly? Games. Sports. Casinos. Loud machines that went fast. Shopping. Lawsuits blaming other for whatever went wrong. What did they believe in? Conspiracy theories. Racial superiority. Heroes with superpowers. Faith healers. God-loves-you religions. State-supported lotteries. All that enormous energy expended to conquer nothing at all, stadia full of people watching no conquering going on. For every scientist or person in government who really tried to conquer, there were a thousand people buying lottery tickets, drinking beer, watching football, and growing old.”

Sheri S. Tepper

The Visitor in Ch. 44 : the visitor, pp. 460-461
The Visitor (2002)

Sport , God , Faith , Drink

“Each race creates its own devils. You had so many that they specialized. Devils of racial hatred, devils of greed and violence. Devils who killed their own people in orgies of blood. Devils who bombed clinics, devils who bombed school buses, devils who bombed other devils. I got to know every one of them by name. As soon as I arrived, I sent my monsters out to kill them all. They had tarnished my reputation, and though I have lavished much care on mankind, vengeance is mine.”

Sheri S. Tepper

The small god in Ch. 44 : the visitor, p. 458
The Visitor (2002)

School , People

“Once the Regime said that one living cell is a life, real living became irrelevant.”

Sheri S. Tepper

Flower in Ch. 37 : leaving bastion, p. 355
The Visitor (2002)

Life

“If a society thinks it needs weapons, it must accept killing. If it thinks it needs violent men, it must accept rapine and assault.”

Sheri S. Tepper

Colonel Doctor Jens Ladislav in Ch. 32 : dismé in hold, p. 283
The Visitor (2002)

Thinking , Men

“Call me either Colonel or Doctor. Hearing both titles gives me a split personality, the two philosophies differing so widely. It is medicine’s philosophy that lives should be saved, of all sorts. It is our military’s philosophy that as long as a few cells are kept alive, actual lives may be dispensed with. A few inches of gut in a bottle is not, to my mind, a life, no matter what theological contortions one puts oneself through.”

Sheri S. Tepper

Colonel Doctor Jens Ladislav in Ch. 30 : dismé and the doctor, p. 256
The Visitor (2002)

Personality , Life

“They were always telling me their way is the only way to go!”

Sheri S. Tepper

“Oh, no, my dear. No, not at all. So long as it harms no one else, one’s own way is always preferable.”

Dismé and Arnole in Ch. 7 : dismé the maiden, p. 59
The Visitor (2002)

Way

“She had grown through loss and confusion into a girl who lived almost entirely inside her head, taking refuge in the places she created there, not so much repulsed by others’ reality as unable to perceive it.”

Sheri S. Tepper

Source: The Visitor (2002), Ch. 7 : dismé the maiden, p. 57

Girl , Loss , Reality

“Being an immortal doesn’t matter to me. If one looks out into the universe and perceives what true immortality would mean in terms of time and space, it takes monstrous hubris to even conceive of personal immortality, much less desire it.”

Sheri S. Tepper

Nell Latimer in Ch. 6 : nell latimer’s book, p. 51
The Visitor (2002)

Universe , Personality , Time

“I am myself, though from moment to moment something else seems to be looking on. Whatever will be required of me, however, can best be done if I remember who I am.”

Sheri S. Tepper

Guardian Camwar in Ch. 4 : the cooper, pp. 42-43
The Visitor (2002)

“Long ago, the people of the world cried out for help. In the reaches of heaven their cry was heard, and a Visitor came in answer to it. The Visitor began helping immediately, but secretly. Now the visitor intends to be known to the people of the world and the people of the world must deal with that knowledge.”

Sheri S. Tepper

Guardian Camwar in Ch. 4 : the cooper, p. 41
The Visitor (2002)

Help , People , Knowledge , Cry

“Many men of importance were gathered there to be seen talking with other men of importance, resulting in an abundance of conspicuous but immaterial discourse.”

Sheri S. Tepper

Source: The Visitor (2002), Ch. 4 : the cooper, p. 40

Men

“My grandfather said people who can learn, learn morality the way they learn everything else, by building on history. He also said that some people cannot learn from history, so they cannot change. For them, there’s only one book or tradition or whatever it’s called in their religion, and in that book God is eternal and whatever the book says God commanded two or three or four thousand years ago, God still commands today. That may be kill homosexuals or kill nonbelievers. It may say enslave your enemies. It may say mutilate or sequester women, or sell your ten-year-old daughter for somebody’s third wife.”

Sheri S. Tepper

Source: The Fresco (2000), Chapter 49, p. 391

God , Religion , History , Daughters

“We would prefer to believe them, and we’ve gone along with them when they’ve told us the predators are a separate people, races that eat other intelligent life and who do not, therefore, eat Republicans. Or newsmen.”

Sheri S. Tepper

Source: The Fresco (2000), Chapter 44, pp. 335-336

Life , Intelligence , People