Happy birthday Ursula Le Guin!

Happy 80th birthday, Ursula Le Guin! Hardly a day goes by without me finding yet another sentence of yours that I love, but here are a few more I found yesterday, from the 1986 Bryn Mawr Commencement Address:

"...when women speak truly they speak subversively--they can't help it: if you're underneath, if you're kept down, you break out, you subvert. We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains. That's what I want--to hear you erupting. You young Mount St. Helenses who don't know the power in you--I want to hear you."

Thank you for this and for everything.

Happy birthday UKLG redux!

I thought I'd collect up some of the posts appearing on my friends' list. Feel free to comment adding your own, if you've posted too, or just to say how awesome she is:

I posted from the Bryn Mawr Commencement Address
alex_beecroft posted something else from the Bryn Mawr Commencement Address
benet posted wittily from The Day Before the Revolution
communicator posted Let this soul be healed
intertext posted about meeting and reading and being changed by Le Guin
katlinel posted about shapes and patterns, the jungle and the wilderness
nwhyte posted grand birthday greetings
sasha_feather pondered The Dispossessed, rape, and embodiment (trigger warning)
spacefall posted a short sweet truth
the_wild_iris posted from The Dispossessed
toft_froggy posted about the impact of reading her
trixie_leitz posted Learning the Name and Nine Lines, August 9