- If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself-as men have done to women, and class has done to class, and nation has done to nation-you may hate it or deify it; but in either case you have denied its spiritual equality and its human reality. You have made it into a thing, to which the only possible relationship is a power relationship. And thus you have fatally impoverished your own reality. You have, in fact, alienated yourself.
- Ursula K. Le Guin, "American SF and The Other"
- "OPEN YOUR EYES!" I roared, "BEFORE I KILL YOU!" and Boss-man did.
- Joanna Russ, The Female Man
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