Ursula K. Le Guin book Four Ways to Forgiveness
"A Woman's Liberation", p. 184
Four Ways to Forgiveness (1995)
“Hunger reduces one to an utterly spineless, brainless condition, more like the after-effects of influenza than anything else. It is as though all one's blood had been pumped out and lukewarm water substituted.”
Source: Down and out in Paris and London (1933), Ch. 7
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