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The misogyny that shapes every aspect of our civilization is the institutionalized form of male fear and hatred of what they have denied and therefore cannot know, cannot share: that wild country, the being of women.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin (b. 1929), U.S. author. Speech, June 1986, University of California at Davis. "Woman/Wilderness," Dancing at the Edge of the World (1989).

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