Quotes by Ursula LeGuin

• As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.
• I 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.
• In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.
• It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end.
• The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.
• The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.
• The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women.