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It's not a weapon or a woman can make a man, or magery either, or any power, anything but himself.
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
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
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Science Fiction Writer
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Writer
Berkeley
California
Ursula Kroeber
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin
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To break a promise is to deny the reality of the past. Therefore it is to deny the hope of a real future.
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I never knew anybody . . . who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details.
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