Spencer

“Sexual fear and sexual frustration are both extremely rare. This was the first case I had seen of the social purpose running counter to the sexual drive. Being a suppression, not merely a repression, it produced not frustration, but something more ominous, perhaps, in the long run: passivity.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Left Hand of Darkness

“I do not know what makes a man a traitor. No man considers himself a traitor: this makes it hard to find out.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

“The fact that I wanted to be around Celia all the time, the fact that I cared about her enough that I valued her happiness over my own, the fact that I liked to think about that moment when she stood in front of me without her shirt on—now, you put those pieces together, and you say, one plus one equals I’m in love with a woman. But back then, at least for me, I didn’t have that equation. And if you don’t even realize that there's a formula to be working with, how the hell are you supposed to find the answer?”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“The stranger who comes unknown is a guest. Your enemy is your neighbor.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Left Hand of Darkness