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.
URSULA K. LE GUINAbsolute freedom is absolute responsibility.
More Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
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Success is somebody else’s failure.
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The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel. The rabbit shrieks dying in the green meadows.
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Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I’m going to go fulfill my proper function in the social organism. I’m going to unbuild walls.
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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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We cannot demand that anyone try to attain justice and freedom who has not had a chance to imagine them as attainable.
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But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them.
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Those who build walls are their own prisoners.
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The world is in balance . To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
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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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There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.
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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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I believe that all the best faculties of a mature human being exist in the child. . . that one of the most deeply human, and humane, of these faculties is the power of imagination.
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Hardly anybody ever writes anything nice about introverts. Extroverts rule. This is rather odd when you realise that about nineteen writers out of twenty are introverts.
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This is. And thou art. There is no safety. There is no end. The word must be heard in silence. There must be darkness to see the stars.
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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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