“ I learned that the story has no beginning, and no story has an end. That the story is all muddle, all middle. That the story is never true, but that the lie is indeed a child of silence. By Ursula K. Le Guin
“ I hold it self-evident that so long as we live in a man’s world, as we still do, women have a right to create enclaves of learning or work where, instead of obeying or imitating what men do and want,… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ I felt the pressure of people all around me, all the time. People around me, people with me, people pressing on me, pressing me to be one of them, one of the people. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ I don’t have a gun and I don’t have even one wife and my sentences tend to go on and on and on, with all this syntax in them. Ernest Hemingway would have died rather than have syntax. Or semicolons. I… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ I can’t decide which color I am. I mean, my father was a black, a real black—oh, he had some white blood, but he was a black—and my mother was a white, and I’m neither one. See, my father really hated… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ I cannot find anywhere in my life a time, or a kind of time, that is unoccupied. I am free, but my time is not. My time is fully and vitally occupied.... None of this is spare time. I can't spare it.… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ I am yours by parentage and custom and by duty undertaken towards you. I am your wizard. But it is time you recalled that, tough I am a servant, I am not your servant. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ How men feared women! she thought, walking among the late-flowering roses. Not as individuals, but women when they talked together, worked together, spoke up for one another - then men saw plots, caba… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ How It Seems To MeIn the vast abyss before time, selfis not, and soul commingleswith mist, and rock, and light. In time,soul brings the misty self to be.Then slow time hardens self to stonewhile ever… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Honor can exist anywhere, love can exist anywhere, but justice can exist only among people who found their relationships upon it. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Honor can exist anywhere, love can exist anywhere, but justice can exist only among people who found their relationships upon it. Now, Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Her despair grew so great that it burst her breast open and like a bird of fire shattered the stone and broke out into the light of day--the light of day, faint in her windowless room. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ He was so intense, so serious, armored in the formality of his rank and yet vulnerable in his honesty, the purity of his will. Her heart yearned to him. He thought he had learned pain, but he would le… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ He was never rash or hurried, but he was always read. It was the secret, no doubt, of the extraordinary political career he threw away for my sake; it was also the explanation of his belief in me and… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ He was appalled by the examination system, when it was explained to him, he could not imagine a greater detterent to the natural wish to learn than this pattern of cramming in information and disgorgi… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ He tried to read an elementary economics text; it bored him past endurance, it was like listening to somebody interminably recounting a long and stupid dream. He Ursula K. Le Guin
“ He stopped and after a while went on. 'Try to choose carefully, Arren, when the great choices muct be made. When I was young I had to choose between the life of being and the life of doing. And I leap… Ursula K. Le Guin
