“... privilege was obligation; command was service; power, the gift itself, entailed a heavy loss of freedom.” — 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
“As a man's knowledge grows, and his power increases, the road he takes grows ever narrower, until at last he does only… — 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
We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable - but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“The natural, proper, fitting shape of the novel might be that of a sack, a bag. A book holds words. Words hold… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Have you never thought how danger must surround power as shadow does light? This sorcery is not a game we play for… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
But you must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
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?… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“There is nothing you can do that profit does not enter into, and fear of loss, and wish for power. You cannot… — 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
