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
time moving foolish
O foolish writer. Now moves. Even in storytime, dreamtime, once-upon-a-time, now isn't then.
women responsibility rights
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. Women in the anti-choice movement want to share in male power over women, and do so by denying their own womanhood, their own rights and responsibilities.
life forever lovers
The bond between true lovers is as close as we come to what endures forever.
intelligent cerebral
He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.
needs knows
It's a rare gift, to know where you need to be, before you've been to all the places you don't need to be.
artist years indifference
Any artist must expect to work amid the total, rational indifference of everybody else to their work, for years, perhaps for life ...
soul doe hell
Where does your soul go, when you die in Hell?
stupid heart athlete
Certainly the effort to remain unchanged, young, when the body gives so impressive a signal of change as the menopause, is gallant; but it is a stupid, self-sacrificial gallantry, better befitting a boy of twenty than a woman of forty-five or fifty. Let the athletes die young and laurel-crowned. Let the soldiers earn the Purple Hearts. Let women die old, white-crowned, with human hearts.
interesting silence topics
The menopause is probably the least glamorous topic imaginable; and this is interesting, because it is one of the very few topics to which cling some shreds and remnants of taboo. A serious mention of menopause is usually met with uneasy silence; a sneering reference to it is usually met with relieved sniggers. Both the silence and the sniggering are pretty sure indications of taboo.
heart fire desire
Is it the gods who set this fire in our hearts, or do we each make our fierce desire into a god?
law choices betrayed
By such literalism, fundamentalism, religions betrayed the best intentions of their founders. Reducing thought to formula, replacing choice by obedience, these preachers turned the living word into dead law.
young organize bottom
What else can the young be? When you are on the bottom, you must organize from the bottom up
dream wall bridges
Sometimes a god comes.... He brings a new way to do a thing, or a new thing to be done. A new kind of singing, or a new kind of death. He brings this across the bridge between the dream-time and the world-time. When he has done this, it is done. You cannot take things that exist in the world and try to drive them back into the dream, to hold them inside the dream with walls and pretenses. That is insanity. What is, is. There is no use pretending, now, that we do not know how to kill one another.
thinking used
There's seldom as much hurry as I used to think there was.