Xisca Xiscally

“How men feared women! she thought, walking among the late-flowering roses. Not as individuals, but women when they talked together, worked together, spoke up for one another - then men saw plots, cabals, constraints, traps being laid. Of course they were right. Women were likely, as women, to take the next generations part, not this one's; they wove the links men saw as chains, the bonds men saw as bondage.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Other Wind

“By the time I wrote this book I needed to look at heroics from outside and underneath, from the point of view of the people who are not included. The ones who can’t do magic. The ones who don’t have shining staffs or swords. Women, kids, the poor, the old, the powerless. Unheroes, ordinary people—my people. I didn’t want to change Earthsea, but I needed to see what Earthsea looked like to us.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Tehanu

“The first thing I did was sit down and draw a map. I saw and named Earthsea and all its islands. I knew almost nothing about them, but I knew their names. In the name is the magic.

Introduction, The Books Of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Books of Earthsea

“No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore