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"I expect it will turn out that sexual intercourse is possible between Gethenian double-sexed and Hainish-norm one-sexed human beings, though such intercourse will inevitably be sterile. It remains to be proved; Estraven and I proved nothing except perhaps a rather subtler point."
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"Some men are so indoctrinated that they sincerely believe that other than cooking and cleaning the only thing that a woman can do better than them is being a woman."
"Women most often have a difficult enemy and she is a woman and not a man."
"You see only the cat's paw, Signor Tartini, whereas I see the sharp claws hidden in that paw!.. Women are like fire; they warm you from afar, and when you enter into them they burn you to ashes!"
"What a hundred caring, courageous and conscientious women can achieve in ten years, would take a thousand men a hundred years."
"To a misogynist: To err is woman."
"In the Bible, a woman was made from a man. In real life, a man is made from a woman."
"Women often forget that the man she is complaining about is a creation of a mother like her."
"Women rescue men just as much as, if not more than, men rescue women."
"A man wants to see a woman as an angel of imagination, but a woman wants to prove that she is a person."
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"You shall not go down twice to the same river, nor can you go home again. That he knew; indeed it was the basis of his view of the world. Yet from that acceptance of transience he evolved his vast theory, wherein what is most changeable is shown to be fullest of eternity, and your relationship to the river, and the river's relationship to you and to itself, turns out to be at once more complex and more reassuring than a mere lack of identity. You can go home again, the General Temporal Theory asserts, so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been."
"Pride kept her from confiding in the other girls, and caution kept her from confessing to the older women."
"If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that."
"My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it."
"It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music."
"The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story."
"Love does not just sit there, like a stone; it had to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new."
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