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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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Life goes on, even if two-headed and glowing faintly in the dark.
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Nothing remains the same from one moment to the next, you can’t step into the same river twice.
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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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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 great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.
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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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I think hard times are coming when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now and can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine some real grounds for hope.
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All knowledge is local, all truth is partial. No truth can make another truth untrue. All knowledge is part of the whole knowledge.
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It’s a rare gift, to know where you need to be, before you’ve been to all the places you don’t need to be.
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Men call women faithless, changeable, and though they say it in jealousy of their own ever-threatened sexual honor, there is some truth in it.
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That selfhood which is our torment, and our treasure, and our humanity, does not endure. It changes; it is gone, a wave on the sea. Would you have the sea grow still and the tides cease, to save one wave, to save yourself?
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You have made it into a thing, to which the only possible relationship is a power relationship. And thus you have fatally impoverished your own reality.
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My tentacles are coming out of the pigeonhole in all directions.
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Success is somebody else’s failure.
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Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art – the art of words.
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To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
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