Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes:
Ocupation: Author
Life: b. October 21, 1929
Birthday: October 21
Certainly the effort to remain unchanged, young, when the body gives so impressive a signal of change as the menopause, is gallant; but it is a stupid, self-sacrificial gallantry, better befitting a boy of twenty than a woman of forty-five or fifty. Let the athletes die young and laurel-crowned. Let the soldiers earn the Purple Hearts. Let women die old, white-crowned, with human hearts.
source: Ursula K. Le Guin (1997). “Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places”, p.5, Grove Press
topic: Stupid, Athlete, Heart, Die Young, Menopause, Purple Heart, Gallantry
