“ We didn't talk about problems, or parents, or automobiles, or ambitions. We talked about life....And the sea was there, forty feet away and getting closer, and the sky over the sea, and the sun going… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ We demand a rebellious spirit of those who have no chance to learn that rebellion is possible, but we the privileged hold still and see no evil. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness. Tormenbod Ursula K. Le Guin
“ To go was not enough for him, only half enough; he must come back. In such a tendency was already foreshadowed, perhaps, the nature of the immense exploration he was to undertake into the extremes of… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ To deny the past is to deny the future. A man does not make his destiny: he accepts it or denies it. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ To break a promise is to deny the reality of the past; therefore it is to deny the hope of a real future. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ This writing doesn't affect reality any more than any writing does; that is to say, indirectly, but considerably. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ They think if people can possess enough things they will be content to live in prison. But I will not believe that. I want the walls down. I want solidarity, human solidarity. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ They tended to be stolid, slovenly, heavy, and to my eyes effeminate - not in the sense of delicacy, etc., but in just the opposite sense: a gross, bland fleshiness, a bovinity without point or edge. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ They knew that their anarchism was the product of a very high civilization, of a complex diversified culture, of a stable economy and a highly industrialized technology that could maintain high produc… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ They argued because they liked argument, liked the swift run of the unfettered mind along the paths of possibility, liked to question what was not questioned. They were intelligent, their minds were a… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ There's one way to make a baby. If you know another, you can do it with somebody else! Ursula K. Le Guin
“ There is solid evidence for the fact that when women speak more than 30 percent of the time, men perceive them as dominating the conversation; well, similarly, if, say, two women in a row get one of t… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ The tongue they speak there is not like any spoken in the Archipelago or the other Reaches, and they are a savage people, white-skinned, yellow-haired, and fierce, liking the sight of blood and the sm… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ The thing about working with time, instead of against it, he thought, is that it is not wasted. Even pain counts. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ The room smelled of books, that subtle smell which to some is stuffy and to others intoxicating, and it was silent. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ The quality and virtue of a slave is invisibility. The powerless need to be invisible even to themselves. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ The nod of a head is such a small thing, it can mean so little, yet it is the gesture of assent that allows, that makes to be. The nod is the gesture of power, the yes. The numen, the presence of the… Ursula K. Le Guin