Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes

You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them.

What is more arrogant than honesty?

If you see a whole thing – it seems that it’s always beautiful. Planets, lives… But close up a world’s all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life’s a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.

The only thing that makes life possible is a permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.

The preservation of life seems to be rather a slogan than a genuine goal of the anti-abortion forces; what they want is control. Control over behavior; power over women.