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

Ursula K. Le Guin

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Ursula K. Le Guin
Age: 88 †
Born: 1929
Born: October 21
Died: 2018
Died: January 22
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Feminist
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Novelist
Poet
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Science Fiction Writer
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Berkeley
California
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