Writing about our life in the House of Arcamand in the City State of Etra, I fall back into it and see it as I saw it then, from inside and from below, with nothing to compare it to, and as if it were...
Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer; they feed energy back and forth and amplify it. They feed understanding or emotion back and forth and amplify i...
With a clamor of bells that set the swallows soaring, the Festival of Summer came to the city. Omelas, bright-towered by the sea. The rigging of the boats in harbor sparkled with flags. In the streets...
Why must there be war? Oh Lavinia, what a woman's question that is! Because men are men.
Where man goes, trees die; or, to paraphrase Tacitus, we make a desert and call it progress.
When in the Land of Property think like a propertarian. Dress like one, eat like one, act like one, be one.
Whatever language we speak, before we begin a sentence we have an almost infinite choice of words to use. A, The, They, Whereas, Having, Then, To, Bison, Ignorant, Since, Winnemucca, In, It, As . . ....
What we call 'evil' is produced by civilization, its constraints and repressions, deforming the spontaneous, free self-expression of the personality.
What she had begun to learn was the weight of liberty. Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made, and t...
What is the sense of giving a boundary to all... of giving it a name and ceasing to love where the name ceases to apply?
What is a woman's power then? she asked.I don't think we know.When has a woman power because she's a woman? With her children, I suppose. For a while...In her house, maybe.She looked around the kitche...
What happens to a man who just won't cooperate?Well, he moves on. The others get tired of him, you know. They make fun of him, or they get rough with him, beat him up . . .
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...
We cried Sisterhood is powerful!—and they believed us. Terrified misogynists of both sexes were howling that the house was burning down before most feminists found out where the matches were.
We came. . . from a great distance to each other. We have always done so, over great distances, over years, over abysses of chance. It is because he comes from so far away that nothing can separate us...
Wasn’t it immoral to do work you didn’t enjoy? The work needed doing but a lot of people didn’t care what they were posted to and changed jobs all the time; they should have volunteered. Any fool coul...
Ward: Which would you rather have, a National Book Award or a Hugo?Le Guin: Oh, a Nobel, of course.
Världen är väldig och förunderlig,..., men den är inte väldigare eller mer förunderlig än vårt medvetande. (s. 65)
Um amor profundo entre duas pessoas envolve, afinal, o poder e a oportunidade de causar mágoa profunda.
To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.