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
Ursula K. Le Guin quotes about
women order law
To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by force. It has been the male who enforces order, who constructs power structures, who makes, enforces, and breaks laws.
civilization information viruses
The model of modern Western civilization is the virus: the pure bit of information, which turns its environment into endless reproductions of itself.
writing soul share
The great authors share their souls with us- "literally.
cities doe walks
The place they go towards is a place even less imaginable to us than the city of happiness. I cannot describe it at all. It is possible it does not exist. But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.
kings belief nationalism
Having one king, one god, one belief, they can act single-mindedly.
dragons hunger hard
The hunger of a dragon is slow to wake, but hard to sate.
single-life sun life-is
We have been civilized for a thousand millennia. We have histories of hundreds of those millennia. We have tried everything. Anarchism, in all its forms, with the rest. But I have not tried it. They say there is nothing new under any sun. But if each life is not new, each single life, then why are we born?
life religious real
True myths may serve for thousands of years as an inexhaustible source of intellectual speculation, religious joy, ethical inquiry, and artistic renewal. The real mystery is not destroyed by reason. The fake one is. You look at it and it vanishes. You look at the Blonde Hero-really look-and he turns into a gerbil. But you look at Apollo, and he looks back at you. The poet Rilke looked at a statue of Apollo about fifty years ago, and Apollo spoke to him. "You must change your life," he said. When the true myth rises into consciousness, that is always its message. You must change your life.
doe morality function
Morality is an utterly meaningless term unless defined as the good one does to others, the fulfilling of one's function in the sociopolitical whole.
greed sun
Greed puts out the sun.
conformist
The more defensive a society, the more conformist.
profitable
The counsel of the dead is not profitable to the living.
suffering warning danger
Suffering is dysfunctional, except as a bodily warning against danger. Psychologically and socially it's merely destructive.
quiet-voice despair speak
Despair speaks evenly, in a quiet voice.