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Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes

I do try to separate my personal activism - showing up at a demonstration or something - from what I write.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: October 21, 1929

Topics

Showing Up Personal Try Write Up

One of the problems is that everybody is used to the old-fashioned debate system, which is very controlled, and where the moderator plays a more active role.

Problems Debate More Active System

I am positive - determined to move forward with my life, bring up my babies, and do the best job I can as a mother, entertainer, and person.

Life Positive Mother Best Job I Am

True feeling justifies whatever it may cost.

Feeling True Whatever Cost May

I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti want to see the vote of the people respected.

Jean-Bertrand Aristide

People Care American Know Want Vote

But sequence comparisons simply can't account for the development of complex biochemical systems any more than Darwin's comparison of simple and complex eyes told him how vision worked.

Vision Eyes Simple Development More

I am a prince I have it all, and I hear your foot steps on the wall, I wait in silence for your call, and take a shot and watch you fall.

Silence I Am Wait You Fall Wall

Logic teaches rules for presentation, not thinking.

Thinking Logic Rules Presentation

The world is philosophically booby-trapped; touch an interesting subject, and it just might blow up in your face. Some say it's better not to touch.

World Face Better Interesting Say

I try to make my box as big as it can be because I never want to do the same thing twice.

Want Try Never Same Box Big

I think that you have to do everything you can do to empower girls when they are young, from their education, to their successful independence, to their sexual self-knowledge.

Education Think Independence You

Nobody worked harder than Mozart. By the time he was twenty-eight years old, his hands were deformed because of all the hours he had spent practicing, performing, and gripping a quill pen to compose. That's the missing element in the popular portrait of Mozart.

Time Hands Portrait Pen Nobody Old

My parents suffered from that ideal of a perfect nuclear family. They found that a difficult pressure, I think.

Family Parents Think Pressure Found

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