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Quotes from Lavinia — Ursula K. Le Guin

1929–2018 United States

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"Why must there be war?" "Oh Lavinia, what a woman's question that is! Because men are men."

Lavinia (2008)

Is it the gods who set this fire in our hearts, or do we each make our fierce desire into a god?

Lavinia (2008)

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)

They say Mars absolves the warrior from the crimes of war, but those who were not the warriors, those for whom the war was said to be fought, even though they never wanted it to be fought, who absolves them?

Lavinia (2008)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ursula K. Le Guin (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.