Quotes by Elizabeth Moon

Elizabeth Moon

But in fantasy, you can make a complete break, and you can put people in a situation where they are confronted with things that they would not confront in the real world.

People

Real

World

Empress of the Universe would be way too much work. I’d have to wear fancy clothes, probably including lady shoes with pointed toes, and could no longer slouch into the study in PJs and slippers. Someone would (avert!) straighten my desk. Someone would reorganize my yarn stash…in fact, they’d assign someone else to knit my socks, thus depriving me of an excuse to rest my brain while pretending to accomplish something useful.

Clothes

Pjs

Yarn

Even if a tamed wolf makes a good sheepdog, he will never understand how the sheep feel….You are most fortunate. For having been, as you thought, a coward, and helpless to fight – you know what that is like. You know what bitterness that feeling breeds – you know in your own heart what kind of evil it brings. And so you are most fit to fight it where it occurs.

Fighting

Heart

Sheep

Everything in my life that I value has been gained at the cost of not saying what I really think and saying what they want me to say.

Cost

Thinking

Want

Having a mother who had been an aeronautical engineer convinced me that more things should be open to women.

Engineers

Mother

Should

Having to struggle gave me the chance to demonstrate strength of character.

Chance

Character

Struggle

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

Emotional

I Can

Math

I like it that order exists somewhere even if it shatters near me.

Autism

Life

Order

I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can’t really do much with those in a fantasy setting.

Astronomy

Fantasy

Fog

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

Bother

Drug

Rattlesnakes

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Astronomy

Autism

Bass

Blue

Book

Bother

Challenges

Chance

Character

Clothes

Cost

Different

Doe

Drug

Dryers

Emotional

Engineers

Eye

Fantasy

Feminist

Fiction

Fighting

Fog

Future

Hands

Hard

Heart

Hope

I Can

Initiative

Life

Math

May

Mind

Mother

Normal

Order

Past

People

Perfect

Pjs

Rattlesnakes

Real

Rockets

Sheep

Shine On

Should

Sometimes

Strings

Struggle

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Quotes by Elizabeth Moon

Elizabeth Moon

But in fantasy, you can make a complete break, and you can put people in a situation where they are confronted with things that they would not confront in the real world.

Everything in my life that I value has been gained at the cost of not saying what I really think and saying what they want me to say.

Having a mother who had been an aeronautical engineer convinced me that more things should be open to women.

Having to struggle gave me the chance to demonstrate strength of character.

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

I like it that order exists somewhere even if it shatters near me.

I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can’t really do much with those in a fantasy setting.

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

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