To have a choice at all is to be privileged.
URSULA K. LE GUINThe book itself is a curious artifact, not showy in its technology but complex and extremely efficient: a really neat little device, compact, often very pleasant to look at and handle, that can last decades, even centuries.
More Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
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What goes too long unchanged destroys itself.
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When the genuine myth rises into consciousness, that is always its message. You must change your life.
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All of us have to learn how to invent our lives , make them up, imagine them.
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We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.
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A writer either speaks to adults and bores kids, or speaks to kids and upsets adults.
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People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.
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Either we will establish an ecological society or society will go under for everyone, irrespective of his or her status.
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Besides, when you say you’re a feminist it annoys the bigots and the old farts and the prissy ladies so much, it’s kind of irresistible.
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I had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you gave it back to me.
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But where I can get prickly and combative is, if I’m just called a sci-fi writer. I’m not. I’m a novelist and poet. Don’t shove me into your damn pigeonhole, where I don’t fit, because I’m all over.
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I never knew anybody . . . who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details.
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Lying is the misuse of language. We know that. We need to remember that it works the other way round too.
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We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.
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As men have done to women, and class has done to class, and nation has done to nation – you may hate it or deify it; but in either case you have denied its spiritual equality and its human reality.
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We controlled neither appetite nor violence; we did not adapt. We destroyed ourselves. But we destroyed the world first.
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