Ursula K. LeGuin
I like "The Wife's Story" best. Perhaps we could never realize a person even after living together for many years... :p
In these far far away places, could one regain those memroies lost, could one really get back home? I do not think so. Whereever and whenever we search for the serenity of heart, we should seek it right and now rather than there and then...
James Tiptree Jr./ Alice Sheldon
It seems that reading this book allows the reader to witness the ending(s) of the world...or of mankind/humanity? It is quite astonishing to see how men could be so cruel and violent to the other half of the race. Or is it that men and women are, after all, different races?
It is interesting that although I admire "The Girl Who Was Plugged In," "Houston, Houston, Do You Read?," and "The Women Men Don't See" enough, I am definitely awed by "With Delicate Mad Hands" and "We Who Stole The Dream," which quite cleary depicted the hopelessness of humanity and the sweetness of pursuing destined death.
Toni Morrison
Surely this is a story about gaze, internalization, violence, and abuse as well as about gender and race.
And it is really a sad story, about innocence and innoccence lost....I could not but grieve over Pecola, who is so obssessed with blue eyes, with the desire of being loved.
The truth is, we all want to be loved....sometimes the desire is so strong that we refuse to see what we are, to realize that what we crave so much for is indeed nothing but a sweet illusion. We all think that as long as we have "the thing" then we will be loved. But we could never obtain it just as the blue eyes could never be blue enough.