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If women had power, what would men be but women who can't bear children? And what would women be but men who can?...I mean, men give her [a queen] pow...more

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Science Fiction properly conceived, like all serious fiction, however funny, is a way of trying to describe what is going on, what people actually do ...more

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The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women.

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The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel. The rabbit shrieks dying in the ...more

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Civilized Man says: I am Self, I am Master, all the rest is other--outside, below, underneath, subservient. I own, I use, I explore, I exploit, I cont...more

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I fear liars, and I fear tricksters, and worst I fear the bitter truth. And so I rule my country well. Because only fear rules men. Nothing else works...more

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We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Res...more

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Hideo," said my mother, in the terrifying way women have of passing without interval from one subject to another because they have them all present in...more

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What good is power when you're too wise to use it?

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Have you never thought how danger must surround power as shadow does light? This sorcery is not a game we play for pleasure or for praise. Think of th...more

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Under his feet he felt the hillroots going down and down into the dark, and over his head he saw the dry, far fires of the stars. Between, all things ...more

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If one believes that words are acts, as I do, then one must hold writers responsible for what their words do.

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The natural, proper, fitting shape of the novel might be that of a sack, a bag. A book holds words. Words hold things. They bear meanings. A novel is ...more

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... privilege was obligation; command was service; power, the gift itself, entailed a heavy loss of freedom.

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Without war there are no heroes.""What harm would that be?""Oh, Lavinia, what a woman's question that is.