...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."

-- Ursula K. Le Guin

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Daughter of sociologists who wrote, "Ishi".
--about the last of his California tribe.

Country: United States

Type: Prose
Context: Speech
Context Details: Commencement address by Ursula K. LeGuin in 1986
Source: Bryn Mawr commencement Address

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