Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula Kroeber Le Guinis an American author of novels, children's books, and short stories, mainly in the genres of fantasy and science fiction. She has also written poetry and essays. First published in the 1960s, her work has often depicted futuristic or imaginary alternative worlds in politics, the natural environment, gender, religion, sexuality and ethnography...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth21 October 1929
CountryUnited States of America
wall prisoner disapproval
Those who build walls are their own prisoners.
eye tools might
It was easy to share when there was enough, even barely enough, to go round. But when there was not enough? Then force entered in; might making right; power, and its tool, violence, and its most devoted ally, the averted eye.
kings pregnant-women pregnant
The king was pregnant.
saying-goodbye forever mortals
Oh, never and forever aren't for mortals, love. But we won't be parted till I know it's right that we part.
war hero harm
Without war there are no heroes. What harm would that be? Oh, Lavinia, what a woman's question that is.
lying novelists prophet
Predictions are uttered by prophets (free of charge); by clairvoyants (who usually charge a fee, and are therefore more honored in their day than prophets); and by futurologists (salaried). Prediction is the business of prophets, clairvoyants, and futurologists. It is not the business of novelists. A novelist's business is lying.
sleep cat researchers
We sleep researchers like cats, you know; they sleep a lot!
art black said
Do you know how to read?" "No. It is one of the black arts." He nodded. "But a useful one," he said.
A wrong that cannot be repaired must be transcended.
mother moon men
Men call women faithless, changeable, and though they say it in jealousy of their own ever-threatened sexual honor, there is some truth in it. We can change our life, our being; no matter what our will is, we are changed. As the moon changes yet is one, so we are virgin, wife, mother, grandmother. For all their restlessness, men are who they are; once they put on the man's toga they will not change again; so they make a virtue of that rigidity and resist whatever might soften it and set them free.
genre frenchmen
Ah, genre. A word only a Frenchman could love.
There's nothing wrong with me...except acute chronic fear.
life hurt two
A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt.
eye thinking darkness
Darkness is only in the mortal eye, that thinks it sees, but sees not.