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.
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LE GUIN They leave Omelas, they walk ahead into the darkness, and they do not come back. The place they... URSULA K. LE GUIN Oh, never and forever aren't for mortals, love. But we won't be parted till I know it's right that w... URSULA K. LE GUIN A forest ecology is a delicate one. If the forest perishes, its fauna may go with it. The Athshean w... URSULA K. LE GUIN This was the way he had to go; he had no choice. He had never had any choice. He was only a dreamer. URSULA K. LE GUIN My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it. URSULA K. LE GUIN Would you give up the craft of your hands, and the passion of your heart, and the hunger of your min... URSULA K. LE GUIN The little Otak was hiding in the rafters of the house, as it did when strangers entered. There it s... URSULA K. LE GUIN I always wondered why the makers leave housekeeping and cooking out of their tales. Isn't it what al... URSULA K. LE GUIN When I was young, I had to choose between the life of being and the life of doing. And I leapt at th... URSULA K. LE GUIN I always wondered why the makers leave housekeeping and cooking out of their tales. Isn't it what al... URSULA K. LE GUIN Dead anarchists make martyrs, you know, and keep living for centuries. But absent ones can be forgot... URSULA K. LE GUIN We scarcely know how much of our pleasure and interest in life comes to us through our eyes until we... URSULA K. LE GUIN To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them : this skill is most needful... URSULA K. LE GUIN In our loss and fear we craved the acts of religion, the ceremonies that allow us to admit our helpl... URSULA K. LE GUIN Which is better off, a lizard basking in the sun or a philosopher? URSULA K. LE GUIN My dogs have barked at a beggar tonight and he proves a prince of starlight. URSULA K. LE GUIN ... “Dangerous!” Vea laughed radiantly. “What an utterly marvellous compliment! Why am I dange... URSULA K. LE GUIN Anyhow they’re always exceptions. But most women, their only relationship to a man is having. Eith... URSULA K. LE GUIN We have nothing but our freedom. We have nothing to give you but your own freedom. We have no law bu... URSULA K. LE GUIN What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice. URSULA K. LE GUIN It is our suffering that brings us together. It is not love. Love does not obey the mind, and turns ... URSULA K. LE GUIN Do you see, Arren, how an act is not, as young men think, like a rock that one picks up and throws, ... URSULA K. LE GUIN While we read a novel, we are insane—bonkers. We believe in the existence of people who aren't the... URSULA K. LE GUIN An Odonian undertook monogamy just as he might undertake a joint enterprise in production, a ballet ... URSULA K. LE GUIN I am living in a nightmare, from which from time to time I wake in sleep. URSULA K. LE GUIN The prisoner is the jailer's jailer. URSULA K. LE GUIN There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else... URSULA K. LE GUIN What good is power when you're too wise to use it? URSULA K. LE GUIN Where does your soul go, when you die in Hell? URSULA K. LE GUIN But need alone is not enough to set power free: there must be knowledge. URSULA K. LE GUIN Belief is the wound that knowledge heals. URSULA K. LE GUIN A promise is a direction taken, a self-limitation of choice. As Odo pointed out, if no direction is ... URSULA K. LE GUIN To use the enemy's weapon is to play the enemy's game...speak the truth and hear the truth. URSULA K. LE GUIN Light is the left hand of darkness and darkness the right hand of light. Two are one, life... URSULA K. LE GUIN We all have forests on our minds. Forests unexplored, unending. Each one of us gets lost in the fore... URSULA K. LE GUIN In many college English courses the words “myth” and “symbol” are given a tremendous charge ... URSULA K. LE GUIN To oppose something is to maintain it... You must go somewhere else; you must have another goal; the... URSULA K. LE GUIN In feudal times the aristocracy had sent their sons to university, conferring superiority on the ins... URSULA K. LE GUIN Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicor... URSULA K. LE GUIN Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It ... URSULA K. LE GUIN His words cost him so much, she thought, not like hers that just came dancing out of the air and wen... URSULA K. LE GUIN On the blank leaf glued to the inner back cover I drew the double curve within the circle, and black... URSULA K. LE GUIN Death and life are the same thing-like the two sides of my hand, the palm and the back. And still th... URSULA K. LE GUIN There must be darkness to see the stars. URSULA K. LE GUIN The experience was disagreeable. I began to feel like an atheist praying. URSULA K. LE GUIN The fish in the creek said nothing. Fish never do. Few people know what fish think about injustice, ... URSULA K. LE GUIN We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel...... URSULA K. LE GUIN A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt. URSULA K. LE GUIN What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice URSULA K. LE GUIN