“We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.”

—  Ursula K. Le Guin, book Dancing at the Edge of the World

Bryn Mawr Commencement Address https://books.google.com/books?id=QK6TYg32CocC&pg=PA160 (1986), in Dancing at the Edge of the World (1997), p. 160

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