41 Quotations by Ursula K. Le Guin
- 21. Reason is a faculty far larger than mere objective force. When either the political or the scientifi ...

- 22. The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is ...

- 23. The misogyny that shapes every aspect of our civilization is the institutionalized form of male fear ...

- 24. The misogyny that shapes every aspect of our civilization is the institutionalized form of male fear ...

- 25. The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what come ...

- 26. The pornography of violence of course far exceeds, in volume and general acceptance, sexual pornogra ...

- 27. The preservation of life seems to be rather a slogan than a genuine goal of the anti-abortion forces ...

- 28. The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the ...

- 29. The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, make ...

- 30. The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there ...

- 31. There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has al ...

- 32. To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

- 33. To me, the "female principle" is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values o ...

- 34. To oppose something is to maintain it.

- 35. Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself trans ...

- 36. Virginity is now a mere preamble or waiting room to be got out of as soon as possible; it is without ...

- 37. We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps chan ...

- 38. What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?

- 39. What the hell is nostalgia doing in a science-fiction film? With the whole universe and all the futu ...

- 40. When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.

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