But need alone is not enough to set power free: there must be knowledge.
But because she was not a girl now, she was not awed, but only wondered at how men ordered their world into this dance of masks, and how easily a woman might learn to dance it.
Bir insanın yeniden doğabilmesi için, ölmesi gerekir Tenar. O taraftan görüldüğü kadar zor bir şey değil bu. Ged
Atro had once explained to him how this was managed, how the sergeants could give the privates orders, how the lieutenants could give the privates and the sergeants orders, how the captains... and so...
At the pit's bottom is no anger.
And 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 b...
And I needed a rock. Something to hold onto, to stand on. Something solid. Because everything was going soft, turning into mush, into marsh, into fog. Fog closing in on all sides. I didn't know where...
All they're trying to do is tell you what they're like, and what you're like—what's going on—what the weather is now, today, this moment, the rain, the sunlight, look! Open your eyes; listen, listen....
Alas, I had no power, at that time, to combat the flat refusal of many cover departments to put people of color on a book jacket. So, through many later, lily-white Geds, Ruth Robbins’s painting for t...
Ahora sabía, y era cruel saberlo, que su tarea nunca había consistido en tratar de deshacer lo que había hecho sino en terminar lo que había empezado.
A woman's a different thing entirely. Who knows where a woman begins and ends? Listen, mistress, I have roots, I have roots deeper than this island.Deeper than the sea, older than the raising of the l...
A dangerous book will always be in danger from those it threatens with the demand that they question their assumptions. They'd rather hang on to the assumptions and ban the book.
La diferencia no está en copular; está en la otra persona. Y dieciocho años es como si empezaras cuando descubres [i]esa[/i]diferencia. Al menos, si es una mujer lo que estás tratando de entender. A u...
'They eat their kind,' he said, 'Like men.'
'The fact is,' I said, 'that you're unable, or unwilling, to believe in the fact that I believe in you.'
In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we're done with it, we may find - if it...
Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: the refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain. If you can lick them, join them. If it...
Той вървеше, а до него крачеше нежната, покорна, неуморима жена.
По-късно, когато Гед размишляваше за тази нощ, стана му ясно, че ако никой не го бе докоснал, докато лежеше бездиханен, ако никой не го бе повикал по някакъв начин, той щеше да си отиде завинаги. Спас...
You’re not a traitor, you’ve merely been the tool of one. I don’t punish tools. They do harm only in the hands of a bad workman.