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As we did without clergy, let us do without soldiers. The joy built upon successful slaughter is not the right kind of joy; it will not do; it is fear...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?...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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In this he saw that Ogion had been right: the shadow could not draw on his power, so long as he was turned against it.

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Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer; they feed energy back and forth and amplify it

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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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Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

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The law of evolution is that the strongest survives!' 'Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of any social species, are those who are most social. ...more

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In modern fantasy (literary or governmental), killing people is the usual solution to the so-called war between good and evil.

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I never knew anybody, anywhere I have been, who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details, the way a pla...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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War as a moral metaphor is limited, limiting, and dangerous. By reducing the choices of action to “a war against” whatever-it-is, you divide the world...more

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War as a moral metaphor is limited, limiting, and dangerous. By reducing the choices of action to “a war against” whatever-it-is, you divide the world...more

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What was and what may be lie, like children whose faces we cannot see, in the arms of silence. All we have is here, now.