Lancelot: Morgaine, Morgaine - kinswoman, I have never seen you weep. Morgaine: Are you like so many men, afraid of a woman's tears? (...) Lancelot: No (...) it makes them seem so much more real, so much more vulnerable - women who never weep frighten me, because I know they are stronger than I, and I am always a little afraid of what they will do.

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Death
After suffering declining health for years Bradley died at Alta Bates Medical Center in Berkeley on September 25 1999 four days after suffering a debilitating heart attack. The story had previously appeared in the fanzine Spacewarp Vol. After her divorce Bradley married numismatist Walter H.

Many critics have noted a feminist perspective in her writing. Her first child David R. Marion Eleanor Zimmer Bradley (June 3 1930 – September 25 1999) was an American author of fantasy novels such as The Mists of Avalon and the Darkover series.