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“He went on writing letters to Urras, even when he mailed none of them at all. The fact of writing for someone who might understand-who might have understood-made it possible for him to write, to think. Otherwise it was not possible.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

“In analyzing the sex-class system, feminists are accused of inventing or perpetuating it. Calling attention to it, we are told, insults women by suggesting that they are victims, stupid enough to allow themselves to be victimized. Feminists are accused of being the agents of degradation by postulation that such degradation exists.”
― Andrea Dworkin, Right-Wing Women

“There may not be as much humanity in the world as one would like to see. But there is some. There's more than one would think. In any case, if you break faith with what you know, that's a betrayal of many, many, many, many people. I may know six people, but that's enough. Love has never been a popular movement and no one's ever wanted really to be free. The world is held togther, really it is held together, by the love and the passion of very few people. Otherwise, of course you're in despair. Walk down the street of any city, any afternoon, and look around you. What you've got to remember is what you're looking at is also you. Everyone you're looking at is also you. You could be that person. You could be that person, you could be that cop. And you have to decide in yourself not to be.”
― James Baldwin

“We grieve because no living man will see again the onrushing phalanx of victorious birds, sweeping a path for spring across the March skies, chasing the defeated winter from all the woods and prairies of Wisconsin.

Men still live who, in their youth, remember pigeons. Trees still live who, in their youth, were shaken by a living wind. But a decade hence only the oldest oaks will remember, and at long last only the hills will know.”
― Aldo Leopold, Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Ecology and Conservation (Library of America: Written by Aldo Leopold, 2013 Edition, (Reprint) Publisher: Library of America [Hardcover]