6 quotes
It’s not a weapon or a woman can make a man, or magery either, or any power, anything but himself.
Tehanu (1990)
"Why must there be war?" "Oh Lavinia, what a woman's question that is! Because men are men."
Lavinia (2008)
I thought, shivering, that there are things that outweigh comfort, unless one is an old woman or a cat.
The Left Hand of Darkness (1969)
“Is it different, then, for men and for women?”
“What isn’t, dearie?”
Tehanu (1990)
I can never get used to the fact, though I know it, that women are born cynics. Men have to learn cynicism. Infant girls could teach it to them.
Lavinia (2008)
We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.
Dancing at the Edge of the World (1989)