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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Men substitute words for reality and then argue about the words.
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God creates men, but they choose each other.
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I was interested in political failure here in the U.S. The way we're failing to work together to solve even our smallest problems, let alone the complex ones.
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Because I am fascinated by people and what makes them behave the way they do. I think it is one of the most fascinating things in the world.
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Armed men don’t sit down and talk.
