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Intellect to the men, politics to the women, and ethics to the interaction of both: that’s their arrangement.
Ursula K. Le Guin • The Word for World is Forest
apotheosis
Ursula K. Le Guin • The Dispossessed (Hainish Cycle)
Kate Tyson (Strathmann) • About - Thoughtful as Moss
Did the Ancient Hainish postulate that continuous sexual capacity and organized social aggression, neither of which are attributes of any mammal but man, are cause and effect?
Ursula K. Le Guin • The Left Hand of Darkness: 50th Anniversary Edition (Ace Science Fiction)
The insistent permissiveness of the late twentieth century had produced fully as much sex-guilt and sex-fear in its heirs as had the insistent repressiveness of the late nineteenth century. Orr was afraid that Haber might be shocked at his not wanting to go to bed with his aunt.
Ursula K. Le Guin • The Lathe Of Heaven
incessant radical change, is not describable in a language that assumes continuity and a common experience of life.
Ursula K. Le Guin • The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination
The essential function of human community is to arrive at some agreement on what we need, what life ought to be, what we want our children to learn, and then to collaborate in learning and teaching so that we and they can go on the way we think is the right way.