“ My heart told me incontrovertibly that neither gender could go far without the other. So, in my story, neither the woman nor the man can get free without the other. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Kids could and did swim in it happily as in their native element, at least until some teacher or professor told them they had to come out, dry off, and breathe modernism ever after. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Don’t know if our life has a purpose and I don’t see that it matters. What does matter is that we’re a part. Like a thread in a cloth or a grass-blade in a field. It is and we are. What we do is like… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ A man: who, knowing his whole true self, cannot be used or possessed by any power other than himself, and whose life therefore is lived for life’s sake and never in the service of ruin, or pain, or ha… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ [T]he status of women in a society is a pretty reliable index of the degree of civilization of that society. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ You fear them because you fear death, and rightly: for death is terrible and must be feared,' the mage said...'And life is also a terrible thing,' Ged said, 'and must be feared and praised. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Who do you think is lying to us? Shevek demanded. Placid, Bedap met his gaze. Who, brother? Who but ourselves? Ursula K. Le Guin
“ While I’m reading a story I want to be able to suspend disbelief; the more questions of authorial reliability force themselves on me, the weaker the hold of the narrative. This is a naïve approach to… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ When there’s no social pressure behind it, respectful behavior becomes a decision, an individual choice. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ What we call 'evil' is produced by civilization, its constraints and repressions, deforming the spontaneous, free self-expression of the personality. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ What is the Meaning of this book, this event in the book, this story . . . ? Tell me what it Means. But that’s not my job, honey. That’s your job. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ What is his purpose, then? I don’t know. Things don’t have purposes, as if the universe were a machine, where every part has a useful function. What’s the function of a galaxy? I don’t know if our lif… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ What is evil? asked the younger man. The round web, with its black center, seemed to watch them both. A web we men weave. Ged answered. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ We’re a lot of newcomers, see, for my Lord Meshe was born 2,202 years ago, but the Old Way of the Handdara goes back ten thousand years before that. You have to go back to the Old Land if you’re after… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ We will not know our own injustice if we cannot imagine justice. We will not be free if we do not imagine freedom. We cannot demand that anyone try to attain justice and freedom who has not had a chan… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel – or have done and thought and felt; or might do and think and feel – is an essential guide to our und… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ We have created crime, just as the propertarians did. We force a man outside the sphere of our approval, and then condemn him for it. We’ve made laws, laws of conventional behavior, built walls all ar… Ursula K. Le Guin
