Guin

Famous quotes containing the word guin:

    To me the “female principle” is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by force. It has been the male who enforces order, who constructs power structures, who makes, enforces, and breaks laws.
    —Ursula K. Le Guin (b. 1929)

    Public speaking is done in the public tongue, the national or tribal language; and the language of our tribe is the men’s language. Of course women learn it. We’re not dumb. If you can tell Margaret Thatcher from Ronald Reagan, or Indira Gandhi from General Somoza, by anything they say, tell me how. This is a man’s world, so it talks a man’s language.
    —Ursula K. Le Guin (b. 1929)

    If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
    —Ursula K. Le Guin (b. 1929)