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Quotes from Beauty — Sheri S. Tepper

1929–2016 United States

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11 quotes

I had told myself it was God’s will when it was nothing of the kind. It was only man’s stupidity.

Beauty (1991)

There is no innocence so deep as to veil the urgencies of the flesh from one’s own youthful awareness.

Beauty (1991)

I have noticed that cats are little impressed by religion.

Beauty (1991)

There’s some who say magic came from nature, and with men destroying nature right and left, there’s not enough of it left.

Beauty (1991)

Oh, didn't I know it's the best we can do, sometimes, simply not to wish our children ill.

Beauty (1991)

Fairy things don’t impress cats. Fairy things and holy things. Cats are, perhaps, a separate creation.

Beauty (1991)

According to Mama, nine-tenths of King Arthur was questing and the other tenth was politics.

Beauty (1991)

The sidesaddle was designed to protect a maiden’s virginity, while risking the maiden’s neck. Rather much for rather little, I thought.

Beauty (1991)

Then, suddenly, I got old. Up until a year or two ago, I wasn’t…didn’t feel old at all.

Beauty (1991)

Men are like that. They marry for reasons that have nothing to do with what they expect from matrimony and then damn their wives for not being what they want later. They marry for beauty and charm and sex, and then expect their wives to be sensible, parsimonious and efficient.

Beauty (1991)

She sighed. “Things the Creator Himself made have perished, Beauty, because of what someone else does. The Holy One makes a tree that lives for four thousand years, and someone chops it down to make paper to package chewing gum. The Creator makes whales who sing in the deep, and men kill them to put their oil in lipsticks.”

Beauty (1991)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Sheri S. Tepper (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.