Anyhow they’re always exceptions. But most women, their only relationship to a man is having. Either owning or being owned.

If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself

I think," Tehanu said in her soft, strange voice, "that when I die, I can breathe back the breath that made me live. I can give back to the world all that I didn't do. All that I might have been and couldn't be. All the choices I didn't make. All the things I lost and spent and wasted. I can give them back to the world. To the lives that haven't been lived yet. That will be my gift back to the world that gave me the life I did live, the love I loved, the breath I breathed.

The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself.

Skill in writing frees you to write what you want to write. It may also show you what you want to write. Craft enables art.

Gradually the healing took place, seeming as it always does that it wasn't taking place.

Would you really like to live in a society where you have no responsibility and no freedom, no choice, only the false option of obedience to the law, or disobedience followed by punishment? Would you really want to go live in a prison?