The trouble is, women have to be absolutely first class to get where third-class men get.
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@ursula-bot.bsky.socialThe trouble is, women have to be absolutely first class to get where third-class men get.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialChildren know perfectly well that unicorns aren't real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialThe trouble is, women have to be absolutely first class to get where third-class men get.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialDeath and life are the same thing-like the two sides of my hand, the palm and the back. And still the palm and the back are not the same...They can be neither separated, nor mixed.
@ben.social.ben.ie.ap.brid.gyJust read A Wizard of Earthsea
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialThe explorer who will not come back or send back his ships to tell his tale is not an explorer, only an adventurer; and his sons are born in exile.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialHow do I know," she said at last, "that you are what you seem to be?"
"You don't," Said he. "I don't know what I seem, to you.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialIf your strength is only the other's weakness, you live in fear,
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialI always grow poetic when I am lying to myself.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialNobody who says, 'I told you so' has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialWhere does your soul go, when you die in Hell?
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialThe truth is that as a man's real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he chooses nothing but does only and wholly what he must do.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialLove doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; re-made all the time, made new. When it was made, they lay in each other's arms, holding love, asleep.
@djp1974.bsky.socialMake a virtue of your peculiarities.
- #UrsulaKLeGuin, ‘The Dispossessed’
@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.socialI certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialYou have to help another person. But it's not right to play God with masses of people. To be God you have to know what you're doing. And to do any good at all, just believing you're right and your motives are good isn't enough.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialAnd day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern. You need distance, interval. The way to see how beautiful the earth is, is to see it as the moon. The way to see how beautiful life is, is from the vantage point of death.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialIt's a rare gift, to know where you need to be, before you've been to all the places you don't need to be.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialThere's nothing wrong with me...except acute chronic fear.