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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.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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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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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 road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it.
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The two imperatives can no longer coexist with each other; nor can any society founded on the myth that they can be reconciled hope to survive.
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Life goes on, even if two-headed and glowing faintly in the dark.
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Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.
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To see that your life is a story while you’re in the middle of living it may be a help to living it well.
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The story is not in the plot but in the telling.
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A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it.
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A wrong that cannot be repaired must be transcended.
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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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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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Hate gets going, it goes round, it gets older and tighter and older and tighter, until it holds a person inside it like a fist holds a stick.
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No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.
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Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.
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As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation, just as a cellist playing a Bach suite participates, note by note, in the creation, the coming-to-be, the existence, of the music.
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