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There are plenty of images of women in science fiction. There are hardly any women.

Real artists, it seems to me, are those who don't repeat themselves.

Life has to end. What a pity! Sometimes, when one is alone, the universe presses itself into one's hands: a plethora of joy, an organized plentitude.

Without meaningful work you might as well be dead.

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

If you want to live forever you are dreadfully dangerous because you're not living now.

How withered away one can be from a life of unremitting toil.

How am I to put this together with my human life, my intellectual life, my solitude, my transcendence, my brains, and my fearful, fearful ambition?

[T]here is one and only one way to possess that in which we are defective, therefore that which we need, therefore that which we want. Become it.

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

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

In my opinion, questions that are based on something real ought to be settled by something real without all this damned lazy miserable drifting

If you want me to do something else useful, you had better show me what that something else is.

Art is collective. Always, it has a tradition behind it.

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

What future is there for a female child who aspires to being Humpfrey Bogart?

Civilization must be preserved,' says he.
'Civilization's doing fine,' I said. 'We just don't happen to be where it is.

I left her wallpapering her much-loved, much-tended little corner of hell.

Scholars don't usually sit gasping and sobbing in corners of the library stacks.
But they should. They should.

Thus in the bad days, in the dark swampy times.

After a while you tame your interior monsters, it's only natural. I don't mean that it ever stops; but it stops mattering.

Courage is willful hope.

I'm not a girl. I'm a genius.

(Only God can make a tree and She seldom tries, nowadays.)

Ignorance is not bad faith. But persistence in ignorance is.

As my mother once said: The boys throw stones at the frog in jest. But the frogs die in earnest.

Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur.

For years I said Let me in, Love me, Approve me, Define me, Regulate me, Validate me, Support me. Now I say Move over.

The trouble with men is that they have limited minds. That's the trouble
with women, too."
["Existence" (1975)]

Faith is not contrary to the usual ideas, something that turns out to be right or wrong, like a gambler's bet.

There are more whooping cranes in the United States of America than there are women in Congress.