Ursula K. LeGuin quotes

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The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women.
Ursula K. LeGuin
Power
Women
Silence
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.
Ursula K. LeGuin
Life
The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.
Ursula K. LeGuin
Children
Revolution
It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end.
Ursula K. LeGuin
End
Journey
I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy.
Ursula K. LeGuin
Happiness
Time
Joy
Reason
As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.
Ursula K. LeGuin
Imagination
Hope
Perception
Children
Compassion
Scientists
Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
Ursula K. LeGuin
Love
Time
What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
Ursula K. LeGuin
World