Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes About Mothers

Quotes about: Mothers

• A child free from the guilt of ownership and the burden of economic competition will grow up with the will to do what needs doing and the capacity for joy in doing it. It is useless work that darkens the heart. The delight of the nursing mother, of the scholar, of the successful hunter, of the good cook, of the skilful maker, of anyone doing needed work and doing it well, - this durable joy is perhaps the deepest source of human affection and of sociality as a whole.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Mother, Children, Growing Up

  "The Dispossessed". Book by Ursula K. Le Guin, 1974.

• Men call women faithless, changeable, and though they say it in jealousy of their own ever-threatened sexual honor, there is some truth in it. We can change our life, our being; no matter what our will is, we are changed. As the moon changes yet is one, so we are virgin, wife, mother, grandmother. For all their restlessness, men are who they are; once they put on the man's toga they will not change again; so they make a virtue of that rigidity and resist whatever might soften it and set them free.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Mother, Men, Moon

  "Lavinia". Book by Ursula K. Le Guin, 2008.

• There is not much you can say about a baby unless you are talking with its father or another mother or nurse; infants are not part of the realm of ordinary language, talk is inadequate to them as they are inadequate to talk.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Mother, Baby, Father

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2008). “Lavinia”, p.193, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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