Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
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To be honest, I think for part of my late teens my character didn't really develop very much. I was in a state of cold storage.
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All men would be tyrants if they could.
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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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Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.
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I'd hopefully work through all my issues with men first so then I'd be okay being with a woman.
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Looking back, there is nothing wrong with that peace, love and equality that the hippies espoused. In many ways, we have regressed because they were into organic food, back to nature, make love not war, be good to all men, share and share alike - which is what many are talking about now.
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Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!
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Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.
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And I think maybe all women, if they just had a chance, would be romantic and believe in love and not sex. And men believe in sex and not love.
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Is woman a religion? Well, perhaps you will have the chance of judging for yourselves if you go to America. There you will find men treating women with just the same respect formerly accorded only to religious dignitaries or to great nobles.
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Men are what their mothers made them.
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The Beatles were a group made up of four very complex men, and my small hand could not have broken these men up.
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I don't have one role that I want to play. I guess... I want to be a producer. I want to be an activist. I want to be proactive in bringing about work for men, women, boys, girls, everybody who is good at what they do and deserve a shot at it.
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I am not a hero but the brave men who died deserved this honor.
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In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.
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Sunlight is painting.
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Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
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He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
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Democracy is necessitated by the fact that all men are sinners; it is made possible by the fact that we know it.
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To win a gold medal at Olympic Games has long been my dream ever since I started my career as a table tennis player.
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Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.
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I don't like to bring attention to myself. I don't like to make a scene.
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When I was younger, I didn't understand how a mother could put her son on a plane and just say, you know, 'Here you go, I'll see you later.' And she never followed, she never came.
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Armed men don’t sit down and talk.
