“Love didn't grow very well in a place where there was only fear”

On the Dark Goddess, p. 45
Dancing in the Flames (1997)

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Red Prophet (1988), Chapter 4.

1990s, Prison interviews and interrogations (1995)

Source: Beautiful Lies

Introduction
The Female Eunuch (1970)
Context: The fear of freedom is strong in us. We call it chaos or anarchy, and the words are threatening. We live in a true chaos of contradicting authorities, an age of conformism without community, of proximity without communication. We could only fear chaos if we imagined that it was unknown to us, but in fact we know it very well. It is unlikely that the techniques of liberation spontaneously adopted by women will be in such fierce conflict as exists between warring self-interests and conflicting dogmas, for they will not seek to eliminate all systems but their own. However diverse they may be, they need not be utterly irreconcilable, because they will not be conquistatorial.

Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 90

Beloved (1987)

Source: Hainish Cycle, The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), Chapter 1 “A Parade in Ehrenrang” (p. 18)