Ursula Kroeber Le Guin
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Born: 21 October 1929, Berkeley, California
Born Ursula Kroeber, her father was anthropologist Alfred L. Kroeber, the first to earn a Ph.D. in anthropology in the US and when he founded the anthropology department at the University of California at Berkeley it was only the second such department in this country. Le Guin has commented on the similarity between her father's descriptions of human anthropology and her creation of alien worlds. She earned her BA (Phi Beta Kappa) from Radcliffe College in 1951 and her Masters at Columbia the next year. She studied in France on a Fulbright scholarship, there she met the historian Charles Le Guin. They married in 1953 and bought a house at Portland, Oregon in 1958; at last report they still lived there. She first ventured published short was "April in Paris" which appeared in Fantastic magazine in 1962, her first novel to be published (sixth written) was Rocannon's World in 1964. She has written twenty novels, fifteen children's books, more than 100 short stories, two collections of essays, and five volumes of poetry.
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- A man wants his virility regarded, a woman wants her femininity appreciated, however indirect and subtle the indications of regard and appreciation. On Winter they will not exist. One is respected and judged only as a human being. It is an appalling experience. permalink
Ursula K. Le Guin - A moral choice in its basic terms appears to be a choice that favors survival: a choice made in favor of life. permalink
Ursula K. Le Guin - All of us have to learn how to invent our lives, make them up, imagine them. We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. If we don't, our lives get made up for us by other people. permalink
Ursula K. Le Guin - Almost everything carried to its logical extreme becomes depressing, if not carcinogenic. permalink
Ursula K. Le Guin - As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope. permalink
Ursula K. Le Guin - Belief in heaven and hell is a big deal in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and some forms of doctrinaire Buddhism. For the rest of us it's simply meaningless. We don't live in order to die, we live in order to live. permalink
Ursula K. Le Guin - Claude Levi-Strauss has been a great source of fruitful irritation to my mind. permalink
Ursula K. Le Guin - He arrived at ideas the slow way, never skating over the clear, hard ice of logic, nor soaring on the slipstreams of imagination, but slogging, plodding along on the heavy ground of existence. permalink
Ursula K. Le Guin - He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral. permalink
Ursula K. Le Guin - I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy. permalink
Ursula K. Le Guin - I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy. permalink
Ursula K. Le Guin - I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant. permalink
Ursula K. Le Guin - I have never found anywhere, in the domain of art, that you don't have to walk to. (There is quite an array of jets, buses and hacks which you can ride to Success; but that is a different destination.) It is a pretty wild country. There are, of course, roads. Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby. No hitchhiking. And if you want to strike out in any new direction — you go alone. With a machete in your hand and the fear of God in your heart. permalink
Ursula K. Le Guin - I'll make my report as if I told a story, for I was taught as a child on my homeworld that Truth is a matter of the imagination. permalink
Ursula K. Le Guin - If civilization has an opposite, it is war. permalink
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