It was men's ambitions, they said, that had perverted all the arts to ends of gain. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
And he began to see the truth, that Ged had neither lost nor won but, naming the shadow of his death with… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
No man, no power, can bind the action of wizardry or still the words of power. For they are the very words… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
It did not matter, after all. He was only one man. One man's fate is not important. "If it is not, what… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
It is hard, I found, to be called traitor. Strange how hard it is, for it's an easy name to call another… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Reading is performance. The reader--the child under the blanket with a flashlight, the woman at the kitchen table, the man at the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
As a man's real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Do you see, Arren, how an act is not, as young men think, like a rock that one picks up and throws,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
After a long time spent learning how to write as a woman instead of as an honorary man, I was able to… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Anyhow they’re always exceptions. But most women, their only relationship to a man is having. Either owning or being owned. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
What good is music? None ... and that is the point. To the world and its states and armies and factories and… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
If women had power, what would men be but women who can't bear children? And what would women be but men who… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Civilized Man says: I am Self, I am Master, all the rest is other--outside, below, underneath, subservient. I own, I use, I… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I have told the story I was asked to tell. I have closed it, as so many stories close, with a joining… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Legends of prediction are common throughout the whole Household of Man. Gods speak, spirits speak, computers speak. Oracular ambiguity or statistical probability… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
What's wrong with men?" Tenar inquired cautiously. As cautiously, lowering her voice, Moss replied, "I don't know, my dearie. I've thought on… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
For we each of us deserve everything, every luxury that was ever piled in the tombs of the dead kings, and we… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
It is no secret. All power is one in source and end, I think. Years and distances, stars and candles, water and… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Men call women faithless, changeable, and though they say it in jealousy of their own ever-threatened sexual honor, there is some truth… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
In general she had found that the main drawback in being a man was that conversations were less interesting. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
No matter how intelligent a man is, he can't see what he doesn't know how to see. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
A panda walks into a tea room and ordered a salad and ate it. Then it pulled out a pistol, shot the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I suppose the most important thing, the heaviest single factor in one's life, is whether one's born male or female. In most… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“...I wore his blood for clothing, on my legs and thighs and hands: a dry, stiff, brown garment with no warmth in it.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Aeneas' mother is a star?" "No; a goddess." I said cautiously, "Venus is the power that we invoke in spring, in the garden, when… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Meaning - this is perhaps the common note, the bane I am seeking. What is the Meaning of this book, this event in the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
For fantasy is true, of course. It isn't factual, but it is true. Children know that. Adults know it too, and that is precisely… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“. . . chronosophy does involve ethics. Because our sense of time involves our ability to separate cause and effect, means and end. The… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“If both you and your plane are on time, the airport is merely a diffuse, short, miserable prelude to the intense, long, miserable plane… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Between thought and spoken word is a gap where intention can enter, the symbol be twisted aside, and the lie come to be. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I have no control over my writing. I have lots of good intentions, but no control. There's a story that wants to be told. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“I did a lot today. That is, I did something. The only thing I have ever done. I pressed a button. It took the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
