People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.
URSULA K. LE GUINf 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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You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.
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And, as you read and re-read, the book of course participates in the creation of you, your thoughts and feelings, the size and temper of your soul.
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Once you have seen the larger pattern, you cannot go back to seeing the part as the whole.
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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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The dance is always danced above the hollow place, above the terrible abyss.
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My tentacles are coming out of the pigeonhole in all directions.
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To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
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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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When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.
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Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.
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We will not know our own injustice if we cannot imagine justice. We will not be free if we do not imagine freedom.
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What is the use trying to describe the flowing of a river at any one moment, and then at the next moment, and then at the next, and the next, and the next? You wear out. You say: There is a great river, and it flows through this land, and we have named it History.
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To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention.
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Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping it’s not poison.
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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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