If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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- We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.
- There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams.
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- As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.