Beware what you speak,' said the Merlin very softly, 'for indeed the words we speak make shadows of what is to come, and by speaking them we bring them to pass, my king.

A priestess of Avalon does not lie. But I am cast out of Avalon, and for this, and unless it is all to be for nothing, I must lie, and lie well and quickly

To know you are ignorant is the beginning of wisdom.

The Goddess does not shower her gifts on those who reject them.

Love is the only prayer I know.

I have called on the Goddess and found her within myself

There are ignorant priests and ignorant people, who are all too ready to cry sorcery if a woman is only a little wiser than they are!

The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.

A friend of ours has a hobby doing genealogy, and we found out that we were cousins in the ninth degree, that we had a common ancestor on the Mayflower.

Magic is a matter of focusing the disciplined will. But sometimes the will must be abandoned. The secret lies in knowing when to exercise control, and when to let go.

By what men think, we create the world around us, daily new.

When the storm runs out of breath, a rainbow is born.

Do you know what we Turks think is the best Turkish delight? The Turkish woman. She is the best Turkish delight.

The creative strength is good enough and deep enough to bring itself to flower and to grow in spite of this sickness.

[Colin to Sugar Beth] I put my heart on every page.

Love what you do!

For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.

Limitless is your potential. Magnificent is your future.

The triumph of writing fiction is that by doing so, writers can build a more ideal world in themselves.

If you were going to make sculptures of them, the swivel poems would be disparate objects all attached with hinges and the prose poems would be small sheep wrapped in extra wool.

Grace is not part of consciousness; it is the amount of light in our souls, not knowledge nor reason.