A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it.
URSULA K. LE GUINIf it were proven that there is no God there would be no religion. …But also if it were proven that there is a God, there would be no religion.
More Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
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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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Those who build walls are their own prisoners.
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Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.
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Capitalism’s grow-or-die imperative stands radically at odds with ecology’s imperative of interdependence and limit.
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as a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is what you have bought with your solitude, your loneliness.
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It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.
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My world, my Earth is a ruin. A planet spoiled by the human species. We multiplied and fought and gobbled until there was nothing left, and then we died.
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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.
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The delight of the nursing mother, of the scholar, of the successful hunter, of the good cook, of the skilful maker, of anyone doing needed work and doing it well, – this durable joy is perhaps the deepest source of human affection and of sociality as a whole.
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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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The creative adult is the child who has survived.
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The light is the left hand of darkness.
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The world is in balance . To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
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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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Reading is performance. The reader–the child under the blanket with a flashlight, the woman at the kitchen table, the man at the library desk–performs the work.
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