“That’s what Humans are, too, don’t forget. They keep what experience has taught them-usually-but lose the experience itself.”ġ5. They know how to speak, for instance, but they don’t recall learning to speak. “Most Humans lose access to old memories as they acquire new ones. “Repressive societies always seemed to understand the danger of ‘wrong’ ideas.”ġ4. “Sometimes I wrote things because I couldn’t say them, couldn’t sort out my feelings about them, couldn’t keep them bottled inside me.”ġ3. “Read every day and learn from what you read.” Octavia E. “As a kind of castaway myself, I was happy to escape into the fictional world of someone else’s trouble.” “How much of this nonsense does he believe, I wonder, and how much does he say just because he knows the value of dividing in order to conquer and to rule?”ġ1. We can stop denying reality or hoping it will go away by magic.”ĩ. “We give lip service to acceptance, as though acceptance were enough.”Ĩ. But I know that won’t matter if we don’t survive these times.”ħ. I don’t know whether good times are coming back again. “There is no end / To what a living world / Will demand of you.”Ħ. “Good stories are good stories, no matter how they’re categorized.”ĥ. “When I was a kid and read science fiction, the science fiction available for kids at the library that I went to was all boys books and you get tired of reading boys books where the girls just kind of sit on the sideline and cheer the boys on and I think one of the things I wanted to do when I began writing my own was being the one who’s actually doing instead of the one who’s standing off to one side watching.”Ĥ. Whatever touches us touches our writing.”ģ. “I began writing about power because I had so little.”Ģ. We have put together twenty five powerful quotes by this brilliant writer, as pointers to the right direction. Butler has clear messages for the different strata of human beings inhabiting the earth. Butler, championed during her lifetime causes rooted in humanity and equality.Ī multiple recipient of the Hugo and Nebula Awards, she became in 1995 the first science-fiction writer to receive a MacArthur Fellowship. Author of “Kindred,” and several other notable works, Octavia E.
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