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 GUINWe need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. If we don’t, our lives get made up for us by other people .
More Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
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We are been taught to be ashamed of not being ‘outgoing’. But a writer’s job is ingoing.
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All of us have to learn how to invent our lives , make them up, imagine them.
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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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Those who build walls are their own prisoners.
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Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.
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No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.
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A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it… By using words well they strengthen their souls.
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I don’t think ‘science fiction’ is a very good name for it, but it’s the name that we’ve got. It is different from other kinds of writing, I suppose, so it deserves a name of its own.
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The presence of the trees was very strong…The big oaks stood so many, so massive in their other life, in their deep, rooted silence: the awe of them came on me, the religion.
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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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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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We controlled neither appetite nor violence; we did not adapt. We destroyed ourselves. But we destroyed the world first.
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Our roots are in the dark; the earth is our country.
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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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We read books to find out who we are.
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