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“We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.” quote by Ursula K. Le Guin — Download Open image

“We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.”

Ursula K. Le Guin

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