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If women had power what would men be but women who can't bear children? And what would women be but men who can?

If women had power what would men be but women who can’t bear children? And what would women be but men who can?
– Ursula K Le Guin

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  4. Pride kept her from confiding in the other girls, and caution kept her from confessing to the older women. – Ursula K Le Guin
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  6. The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself. – Ursula K Le Guin
  7. In this he saw that Ogion had been right: the shadow could not draw on his power, so long as he was turned against it. – Ursula K Le Guin
  8. Power inheres in a center. You’re going to the center. – Ursula K Le Guin
  9. A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt. – Ursula K Le Guin
  10. … privilege was obligation; command was service; power, the gift itself, entailed a heavy loss of freedom. – Ursula K Le Guin
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  14. Generally, men prefer dating women they love over women who love them; women prefer the opposite. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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  16. The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story. – Ursula K Le Guin
  17. The airport bookstore did not sell books, only bestsellers, which Sita Dulip cannot read without risking a severe systemic reaction. – Ursula K Le Guin
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  19. Nobody who says, -˜I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero. – Ursula K Le Guin
  20. You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change. – Ursula K Le Guin
  21. I know perfectly well he’s a god, too. But what I think is he’ll be much godlier after he’s dead. – Ursula K Le Guin
  22. You don’t speak of dreams as unreal. They exist. They leave a mark behind them. – Ursula K Le Guin
  23. But you’re so strong. I wish I were strong. I just like eating. – Ursula K Le Guin
  24. To see that your life is a story while you’re in the middle of living it may be a help to living it well. – Ursula K Le Guin
  25. Belief in the lie is the life of the lie. – Ursula K Le Guin
  26. Almost everything carried to its logical extreme becomes either depressing or carcinogenic. – Ursula K Le Guin
  27. The imagination is truly the enemy of bigotry and dogma. – Ursula K Le Guin
  28. It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end. – Ursula K Le Guin
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  30. Not even need and love can defeat fate… – Ursula K Le Guin
  31. Every book purchase made from Amazon is a vote for a culture without content and without contentment. – Ursula K Le Guin
  32. But the human being likes to be challenged, seeks freedom in adversity. – Ursula K Le Guin
  33. The danger in trying to do good is that the mind comes to confuse the intent of goodness with the act of doing things well. – Ursula K Le Guin
  34. Nothing said in words ever came out quite even. Things in words got twisted and ran together, instead of staying straight and fitting together. – Ursula K Le Guin
  35. Manhood is patience. Mastery is nine time patience – Ursula K Le Guin
  36. To make a thief, make an owner; to create crime, create laws. – Ursula K Le Guin
  37. Orr slept. He dreamed. There was no rub. – Ursula K Le Guin
  38. The premise is: everybody’s like me and we all think alike.The corollary is: people who don’t think like me don’t matter. – Ursula K Le Guin
  39. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. – Ursula K Le Guin
  40. The strength of Shevek’s personality, unchecked by any self-consciousness or consideration of self-defense, was formidable. – Ursula K Le Guin

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