“ Not even need and love can defeat fate, Lavinia. Aeneas' gift is to know his fate, what he must do, and do it. In spite of need. In spite of love. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ My world, my Earth, is a ruin. A planet spoiled by the human species. We multiplied and gobbled and fought until there was nothing left, and then we died. We controlled neither appetite nor violence;… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Meaning in art isn’t the same as meaning in science. The meaning of the second law of thermodynamics, so long as the words are understood, isn’t changed by who reads it, or when, or where. The meaning… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Master, said Ged, I cannot take your name from you, not being strong enough, and I cannot trick your name from you, not being wise enough. So I am content to stay here, and learn or serve, whatever yo… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Lloró por los años que había perdido esclavizada a un mal inútil. Lloraba de dolor, porque era libre. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Literature is a field a great many men consider theirs by right. Virginia Woolf committed successful competition in that field. She barely escaped the first and most effective punishment--omission fro… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Light is the left hand of darkness and darkness the right hand of light. Two are one, life and death, lying together like lovers in kemmer, like hands joined together, like the end and the way. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Let age be age. Let your old relative or old friend be who they are. Denial serves nothing, no one, no purpose. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ It’s always easier not to think for oneself. Find a nice safe hierarchy and settle in. Don’t make changes, don’t risk disapproval, don’t upset your syndics. It’s always easiest to let yourself be gove… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ It was the most beautiful view Shevek had ever seen. The tenderness and vitality of the colors, the mixture of rectilinear human design and powerful, proliferate natural contours, the variety and harm… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ It isn't changing around from place to place that keeps you lively. It's getting time on your side. Working with it, not against it. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ In this effort to attain security, independence and privacy of course were suspect.... Ursula K. Le Guin
“ In a State, even a democracy, where power is hierarchic, how can you prevent the storage of information from becoming yet another source of power to the powerful—another piston in the great machine? Ursula K. Le Guin
“ In The Tombs of Atuan, the Old Powers, the Nameless Ones, appear as mysterious, ominous, and yet inactive. Arha/Tenar is their priestess, the greatest of all priestesses, whom the Godking himself is s… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled. You will not know what it is to come home. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled. You will not know what it is to come home. Takver Ursula K. Le Guin
“ If women had power, what would men be but women who can't bear children? And what would women be but men who can?Hah! went Tenar; and presently, with some cunning, she said, Haven't there been queens?… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ If memory remains sound and the thinking mind retains its vigor, an old intelligence may have extraordinary breadth and depth of understanding. Ursula K. Le Guin
