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The misogyny that shapes every aspect of our civilization is the institutionalized form of male fear and hatred of what they have denied and therefore cannot know, cannot share: that wild country, the being of women.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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f we can get feminine and human morality out from under the yoke of a dead ethic, then maybe we’ll begin to get somewhere on the road that leads to survival.
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Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
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My tentacles are coming out of the pigeonhole in all directions.
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The creative adult is the child who has survived.
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It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
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Listen.’ For being saved is not the point. Music saves nothing. Merciful, uncaring, it denies and breaks down all the shelters, the houses men build for themselves, that they may see the sky.
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You sit down and you do it, and you do it, and you do it, until you have learned to do it.
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