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Ursula K. Le Guin

1929 - 2018

Ursula K. Le Guin was an American author known for her works in science fiction and fantasy. She is best known for her novels such as "The Left Hand of Darkness" and the Earthsea series, which have greatly influenced the genres of speculative fiction. Le Guin's writing often explored themes of gender, sociology, and environmentalism, earning her numerous awards and accolades throughout her career.

  1. What goes too long unchanged destroys itself.

    Ursula K. Le GuinThe Farthest Shore, 1972
    #change#growth#caution

  2. We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.

    Ursula K. Le Guin
    #volcanoes#truth#transformation

  3. Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.

    Ursula K. Le Guin
    #morning#inevitability#existence

  4. The creative adult is the child who has survived.

    Ursula K. Le GuinThe Dispossessed, p. 112, 1974
    #child#creativity#survival

  5. Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.

    Ursula K. Le GuinThe Lathe of Heaven, 1971
    #love#creation#renewal