Quotes by Ursula K. LeGuin

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

It is good to have an end to journey toward but it is the journey that matters in the end.

A person who believes ... that there is a whole of which one is a part and that in being a part one is whole: such a person has no desire whatever at any time to play God. Only those who have denied their being yearn to play at it.

“A scientist can pretend that his work isnt himself, its merely the impersonal truth. An artist cant hide behind the truth. He cant hide anywhere.”

“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.”