"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...
The king was pregnant.
More Ursula K. Le Guin quotes
"A lot of people still maintain genre prejudice. I still meet matrons who tell me kindly that their children enjoyed my books but of course they never ...
"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 ...
"If a book were written all in numbers, it would be true. It would be just. Nothing said in words ever came out quite even.
"What is love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry? Then it's not a good thing. Is it simply self-love? That's a good thing, but one musn't ...
"The only social change presented by most SF has been towards authoritarianism, the domination of ignorant masses by a powerful elite—sometimes present...
"Almost everything carried to its logical extreme becomes either depressing or carcinogenic.
"[H.G. Wells said] that his method was "to trick his reader into an unwary concession to some plausible assumption and get on with his story while the ...
"I know that I am going to meet a personal variation on reality; a partial view of reality. But I know also that by that partiality, that distancing fr...
"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...
"The constrained body knows and values the freedom of the mind.
"Was he leaving home, or going home?
"To use the enemy's weapon is to play the enemy's game...speak the truth and hear the truth.
"Fish and visitors stink after three days.
"They can send death at once, but life is slower...