“ I wondered, not for the first time, what patriotism is, what the love of country truly consists of, how that yearning loyalty that had shaken my friend's voice arises: and how so real a love can becom… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Do the people in this country approve of this war? [...].Approve? You don't think we'd lie down and let the damned Thuvians walk all over us? Our status as a world power is at stake!But I mean the peo… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Dead anarchists make martyrs, you know, and keep living for centuries. But absent ones can be forgotten. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ But she knew, though very vaguely, that she was crying, because hope hurts terribly when it breaks through the resignation in which you have lived for days. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ But if modesty is interpreted not as diffidence or self-effacingness, but as non-overweening, a realistic assessment of the job to be done and one's ability to do it, then you might say the chief virt… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ A woman has her Juno, just as a man has his Genius; they are names for the sacred power, the divine spark we each of us have in us. My Juno can't get into me, it is already my deepest self. The poet w… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ To be an atheist is to maintain God. His existence or his non-existence, it amounts to much the same, on the plane of proof. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Tenar, I go where I am sent. I follow my calling. It has not yet let me stay in any land for long. Do you see that? I do what I must do. Where I go, I must go alone. So long as you need me, I’ll be wi… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Realism is for lazy-minded, semi-educated people whose atrophied imagination allows them to appreciate only the most limited and convention subject matter. Re-Fi is a repetitive genre written by unima… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Pois eu tinha me esquecido de tanta luz que há no mundo, até você devolvê-la a mim. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ On a world where a common table implement is a little device with which you crack the ice that has formed on your drink between drafts, hot beer is a thing you come to appreciate. Ursula K. Le Guin
