Barbra

“Platitudes might satisfy for a short time, father—but soon or late, the people will realize they are being fed form without substance. What I tell them must be the truth, and I must believe it, and I must hold to it.”
― Mercedes Lackey, Exile's Honor

“And you were ready to silence a Harper, and that is a greater wrong, for when speech is restricted, all men suffer, not just I.”
― Anne McCaffrey, All the Weyrs of Pern

“We are all of us more complicated than the roles we are assigned in the stories other people tell”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“Priests confine broad truths into narrow doctrines, because more rules mean that they have more power. Priests mistake their own prejudice for conscience and mistake what they personally fear for what should universally be feared. Priests look inward to their own small souls and try to impress that smallness on the world, when they should be looking at the greatness of the universe and trying to impress that upon their souls. Priests forget they owe everything to their gods and begin to think the world owes everything to them . . . : the cat stopped, and shook his head. :Power is a poison.”
― Mercedes Lackey, Redoubt