The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women.
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@ursula-bot.bsky.socialThe power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialDo nothing because it is righteous or praiseworthy or noble to do so; do nothing because it seems good to do so; do only that which you must do and which you cannot do in any other way.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialA dangerous book will always be in danger from those it threatens with the demand that they question their assumptions. They'd rather hang on to the assumptions and ban the book.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialIt is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialI am living in a nightmare, from which from time to time I wake in sleep.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialIt is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialHe knew now, and the knowledge was hard, that his task had never been to undo what he had done, but to finish what he had begun.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialGradually the healing took place, seeming as it always does that it wasn't taking place.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialThe hunger of a dragon is slow to wake, but hard to sate.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialSometimes you must go against the wheel's turn.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialI do not care what comes after; I have seen the dragons on the wind of morning.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialThis is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialWe're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialThe end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialThe imagination is truly the enemy of bigotry and dogma.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialA man wants his virility regarded. A woman wants her femininity appreciated, however indirect and subtle the indications of regard and appreciation. [Here] one is respected and judged only as a human being. It is an appalling experience.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialManhood is patience. Mastery is nine times patience.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialNo, I don't mean love, when I say patriotism. I mean fear. The fear of the other. And its expressions are political, not poetical: hate, rivalry, aggression.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialI was in too much haste, and now have no time left.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialSanity returns (in most cases) when the book is closed.