Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
'But you knew them to be evil men-''Was I to join them therefore? To let their acts rule my own? I will not make their choices for them, nor will I let them make mine for me!'
Quotes to Explore
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The beauty of 'The Hunger Games' and also 'Game of Thrones,' in fairness, both projects have really complex, three-dimensional, contradictory, strong women... The writing of female characters is extraordinary and equal to the men.
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Basically hated everything made in the '80s, music television - it was really about the '90s for me. 'Encino Man' was a big hit. 'Robin Hood: Men in Tights.'
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In 2016, makeup has become an incredible passion and hobby for men and women, but it hasn't become mainstream.
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Good masters teach good doctrine, but that taught by evil masters is wholly evil.
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In the X-Men the women are so strong and sexy! We really kick some male butt!
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Arab civilizations had been of an abstract nature, moral and intellectual rather than applied; and their lack of public spirit made their excellent private qualities futile. They were fortunate in their epoch: Europe had fallen barbarous; and the memory of Greek and Latin learning was fading from men's minds.
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All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.
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I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.
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In a country where women regard themselves as equal, they are not prepared to see men running the show themselves.
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Men are what their mothers made them.
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I left for New York expecting to repeat my success, only to be turned down by almost every publisher in that city, till the Viking Press, my American publishers of a lifetime, thought of taking me on.
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I think it's very important for both women and men to see women working in a variety of capacities.
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What I hate is nasty, ugly people.
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To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral.
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Beauty is what attracts men naturally, but really I think we dress for other women, not necessarily for men. We torture ourselves every single day, and I wish that we wouldn't because we should all just get along, really.
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Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.
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The latest research has revealed that women have a higher IQ than men.
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I have lived too long to cherish many illusions about the essential high-mindedness of men when brought into stark confrontation with the issue of control over their security, and their property interests.
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She got out of the car in a smooth motion that he found attractive precisely because it did not seem designed to make men watch her do it.
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Black men of integrity cannot make a deal with a politician and leave out the poor of the nation, all God's children.
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There's a terrible price to pay for stress in your life - it really takes a hit on your heart.
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Good taste cannot supply the place of genius in literature, for the best proof of taste, when there is no genius, would be, not to write at all.
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When I was really little, I loved Whitney Houston. I thought she was the prettiest thing in the world.
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'But you knew them to be evil men-''Was I to join them therefore? To let their acts rule my own? I will not make their choices for them, nor will I let them make mine for me!'
