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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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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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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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The part of the tradition that I knew best was mostly written (or rewritten for children) in England and northern Europe. The principal characters wer...more

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

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I can never get used to the fact, though I know it, that women are born cynics. Men have to learn cynicism. Infant girls could teach it to them.

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The best I can say, it's like this. A man's in his skin, see, like a nut in its shell ... It's hard and strong, that shell, and it's all full of him. ...more

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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?

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Shevek saw that he had touched in these men an impersonal animosity that went very deep. Apparently they, like the tables on the ship, contained a wom...more

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An Odonian undertook monogamy just as he might undertake a joint enterprise in production, a ballet or a soap-works. Partnership was a voluntarily con...more

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She could not have been born gray. Hercolor, her color of brown, was an essential part of her, not an accident. Her anger, timidity, brashness, gentle...more

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The First Mobile, if one is sent, must be warned that unless he is very self-assured, or senile, his pride will suffer. A man wants his virility regar...more

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It is yin and yang. Light is the left hand of darkness... how did it go? Light, dark. Fear, courage. Cold, warmth. Female, male. It is yourself, There...more