Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive.

One voice speaking truth is a greater force than fleets and armies.

The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, and your own feelings, and your destiny.

The misogyny that shapes every aspect of our civilization is the institutionalized form of male fear and hatred of what they have denied and therefore cannot know, cannot share: that wild country, the being of women.

In our loss and fear we craved the acts of religion, the ceremonies that allow us to admit our helplessness, our dependence on the great forces we do not understand.

Love does not obey the mind, and turns to hate when forced.

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