"Must a man then live as his fellows live, and never reach beyond?" â€”Georyn"

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Sylvia Engdahl

“Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman's rights.”
“I don't take criticism lying down.”
“There is no permanent status quo in nature; all is the process of adjustment and readjustment, or else eventual failure. But man is the first being yet evolved on earth which has the power to note this changefulness, and, if he will, to turn it to his own advantage, to work out genetic methods, eugenic ideas, yes, to invent new characteristics, organs, and biological systems that will work out to further the interests, the happiness, the glory of the God-like being whose meager foreshadowings we the present ailing creatures are.”
“My first name was inspired by the character of Aslan, the lion in C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia.”
“If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable.”
“I've always been interested, - if you look back at my work from the beginning, really - I've always been interested in the idea of the artificial landscape. Reforming the landscape. Architecture being a method of reforming the earth's surface. We reshape the earth's surface, from architecture to paving streets, to parking lots and buildings that are really reforming the surface of the earth. Reforming nature, taking over what we find. And we're mushing it around and remaking a new earth - or, what we used to call Terra Nova.”
“The erosion of a nation's concern for life and for individual rights, has always preceded the intrusion of tyranny.”

Source : Gerry Spence (1989). “With justice for none: destroying an American myth”, Crown
“Gruff,â€ I said, â€œI find myself largely clueless about why mortal women do what they do. It will take a wiser man than me to understand whatâ€™s in a fae womanâ€™s mind.”

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