“ The mezklete bustled up to them, pushing its little cart with its furry paws. Mezkletes love parties, love to give food, love to serve drinks and watch their humans get weird. It stayed about hopefull… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ The fact is, the only time a man is really and entirely a man is when he's just had a woman or just killed another man. That wasn't original, he'd read it in some old books; but it was true. That was… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ The elimination of war. Did the Ancient Hainish postulate that continuous sexual capacity and organized social aggression, neither of which are attributes of any mammal but man, are cause and effect? Ursula K. Le Guin
“ The book itself is a curious artifact, not showy in its technology but complex and extremely efficient: a really neat little device, compact, often very pleasant to look at and handle, that can last d… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Somehow is a super-weasel, a word that betrays that the author didn’t want to bother thinking out the story—Somehow Ursula K. Le Guin
“ So God is dead, at least as a swearword, but hate and feces keep going strong. Le roi est mort, vive le fucking roi. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ She had a pocket recorder and was taking all this down: every five seconds, as the law required, the thing went teep. Will you describe the therapy you’re employing please, teep and explain the role t… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ She did feel it. A dark hand had let go its lifelong hold upon her heart. But she did not feel joy, as she had in the mountains. She put her head down in her arms and cried, and her cheeks were salt a… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Self-satisfaction with the inability to remain conscious when faced with printed matter seems misplaced. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Scholarly translations of the Tao Te Ching as a manual for rulers use a vocabulary that emphasizes the uniqueness of the Taoist sage, his masculinity, his authority. This language is perpetuated, and… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Sacrifice might be demanded of the individual, but never compromise: for though only the society could give security and stability, only the individual, the person, had the power of moral choice—the p… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Revolution is our obligation: our hope of evolution. ‘The Revolution is in the individual spirit, or it is nowhere. It is for all, or it is nothing. If it is seen as having any end, it will never trul… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Pravic was not a good swearing language. It is hard to swear when sex is not dirty and blasphemy does not exist. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Perhaps women have more complicated selves. They know how to do more than one thing at one time. That comes late to men. If at all. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ People had huddled back into the old core of the city; and once the suburbs had been looted, they burned. Like Moscow in 1812, acts of God or vandalism: they were no longer wanted, and they burned. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Past events exist, after all, only in memory, which is a form of imagination. The event is real now, but once it’s then, its continuing reality is entirely up to us, dependent on our energy and honest… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Ours is only a little power, seems like, next to theirs, Moss said. But it goes down deep. It's all roots. It's like an old blackberry thicket. And a wizard's power's like a fir tree, maybe, great and… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Our daily life in the auntring was repetitive. On the ship, later, I learned that people who live in artificially complicated situations call such a life 'simple.' I never knew anybody, anywhere I hav… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ One day is the day for moving on, and overnight, the next day, there is no more good in moving on, because you have come where you were going to. Ursula K. Le Guin
