Today comes news of Ursula K. Le Guin’s passing. With gratitude I recall how her words would cross my path over the years. Like a mushroom hunter, I head to the woods of the Internet in search of juicy quotes, returning with a full basket. Many of these are from https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/874602.Ursula_K_Le_Guin.

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“It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.”

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“Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.”

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“It’s a rare gift, to know where you need to be, before you’ve been to all the places you don’t need to be.”

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“We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.”

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