When one culture has the big guns and the other has none, there is a certain predictablity about the outcome.

To die on a dying Earth - I'd live, if only to weep

Long before I became a feminist in any explicit way, I had turned from writing love stories about women in which women were losers, and adventure stories about men in which the men were winners, to writing adventure stories about a woman in which the woman won. It was one of the hardest things I ever did in my life.

The trouble with men is that they have limited minds. That's the trouble with women, too.

The demon got up. The demon said Fool. To think you can eat their food and not talk to them. To think you can take their money and not be afraid of them. To think you can depend on their company and not suffer from them.

Privileged groups, like everyone else, want to think well of themselves and to believe that they are acting generously and justly.

Sit a man on his ass with nothing to do but eat and the first thing that goes is his mind. It never fails.