Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes

Virginity is now a mere preamble or waiting room to be got out of as soon as possible; it is without significance. Old age is similarly a waiting room, where you go after life's over and wait for cancer or a stroke. The years before and after the menstrual years are vestigial: the only meaningful condition left to women is that of fruitfulness.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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• It was really in the Golden Age, between the two world wars, when the pure detective story - of which the locked room mystery is really the ultimate form - became popular.

  

  Otto Penzler
  • World
  • Age
  • Popular

• Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• I respect all women who came before me to blaze trails into the workplace for us.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Women
  • Respect
  • Me

• I feel very strongly that young women have regressed a little bit. But I do get all preachy about it.

  

  Eden Sher
  • Women
  • Feel
  • Young

• The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Life
  • Together
  • Peace

• If women had to promise to provide for a man for a lifetime before he removed his veil and showed her his smile, would we think of this as a system of female privilege?

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Women
  • Man
  • Smile

• I never thought I'd spend all my life with Gary. I suppose I was quite cynical about marriage. But with Jude, I knew right from the beginning: there was an electricity I'd never felt before. It was so easy, we talked for hours. It was a relief, really.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Life
  • Beginning
  • Marriage

• Some people believe they chose homosexuality, and some believe they didn't. Who's to say one is wrong? It's not fair to generalize anyone's sexuality or walk of life.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• My mom's whole life had been my gymnastics. We struggled to connect when I stopped.

  

  Rachele Brooke Smith
  • Life
  • Mom
  • Gymnastics

• I loved my life, but my choices were overloading and overwhelming me. Listening to inner feelings and fulfilling some of these urges when they come along is incredibly important.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
  • Life
  • Important
  • Choices

• There is no age better than another. The commitment to give of yourself and the knowledge that the time is right are what's important.

  

  Iman
  • Time
  • Important
  • Age

• Life is one long jubilee.

  

  Ira Gershwin
  • Life
  • Long
  • Jubilee

• Character is supreme in life, hence Jesus stood supreme in the supreme thing - so supreme that, when we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code but a character.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Life
  • Character
  • Think

• I always say I don't want to change anything in my life.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Life
  • Change
  • My Life

• Yes, I did shatter my leg, and it really changed my life, in a way. It wasn't much fun, but it did open me up, and as we all know intuitively, adversity can develop resources.

  

  Dan Millman
  • Life
  • Up
  • Fun

• My mission in life is to preserve craftsmanship.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Life
  • Mission
  • Craftsmanship

• Big will always be a part of my life. But I'm still on this Earth, so I have to live my life for now and the future.

  

  Faith Evans
  • Life
  • Live
  • Future

• I had a lump on my face and had a big cancer thing removed.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • Cancer
  • Face
  • Big

• I think it's a question which particularly arises over women writers: whether it's better to have a happy life or a good supply of tragic plots.

  

  Wendy Cope
  • Life
  • Good
  • Women

• An artist could have a really big relationship, and then they break up, and any song after that, people are automatically going to assume that that song is about that person.

  

  Julia Carin Cavazos
  • People
  • Up
  • Song

• The army of brokers, jobbers and other quaintly named parasites.

  

  Neil Kinnock
  • Army

• Il faut travailler, sinon par goût, au moins par désespoir, puisque, tout bien vérifié, travailler est moins ennuyeux que s'amuser.

  

  Charles Baudelaire

• If you don't put 99 percent of yourself into the writing, there will be no publishing career. There's the writer and there's the author. The author - you don't ever think about the author. Just think about the writer. So my advice would be, find a way to not care - easier said than done.

  

  Andre Dubus III
  • Writing
  • Done
  • Career

• Virginity is now a mere preamble or waiting room to be got out of as soon as possible; it is without significance. Old age is similarly a waiting room, where you go after life's over and wait for cancer or a stroke. The years before and after the menstrual years are vestigial: the only meaningful condition left to women is that of fruitfulness.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Life
  • Women
  • Age