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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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Things don’t have purposes, as if the universe were a machine, where every part has a useful function. What’s the function of a galaxy?
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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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A child free from the guilt of ownership and the burden of economic competition will grow up with the will to do what needs doing and the capacity for joy in doing it. It is useless work that darkens the heart.
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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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First sentences are doors to worlds.
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The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there .
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Find never One Put Wall Way Wost
Life–evolution–the whole universe of space/time, matter/energy–existence itself–is essentially change.
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The mountains clench their great hands full of hidden fire. There are sharks in the sea, and there is cruelty in men’s eyes.
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To have a choice at all is to be privileged.
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Choose Privilege
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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The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
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Come Intolerable Make Only Permanent Possible Uncertainty
When the genuine myth rises into consciousness, that is always its message. You must change your life.
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Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.
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I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.
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What goes too long unchanged destroys itself.
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Destroy Goes Itself Long Too Unchanged
The question is always the same with a dragon: will he talk with you or will he eat you?
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