Hannah Ferguson

“Thought experiment number four: How necessary is the condition of isolation to utopia? How real is the fear of contamination? Is keeping some people out a necessary condition of the good society?”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed

“But as surely as the future becomes the past, the past becomes the future.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed

“When The Dispossessed was first published, the community on Anarres was about the age of the American experiment I live inside. Now the American experiment is older and like Anarres, faults and failures are showing. Without a serious, insistent recommitment to the idea that no man is above the law, we will soon see the experiment end. No man is above the law. This, the most fundamental, foundational American doctrine, has been clearly shown to be untrue in practice and is now even contested in principle. Among the judges who sit in the highest court of the nation are some who have their doubts. We are not as finished with the divine right of kings as we had hoped.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed

“To lock out, to lock in, the same act,”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed