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About Octavia E. Butler
American science fiction and speculative fiction author
Octavia E. Butler was an American science fiction and speculative fiction author. She won the Hugo, Locus, and Nebula awards, and in 1995 became the first science fiction writer to receive a MacArthur Fellowship. Her work helped define modern speculative fiction, and she is especially known for writing that brought discipline and force to the genre. The record here shows 113 quotes from her.
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- “Intelligence is ongoing, individual adaptability. Adaptations that an intelligent species may make in a singl…”Octavia E. Butler
- “The essentials," I answered, "are to learn to shape God with forethought, care, and work; to educate and bene…”Octavia E. Butler
- “Bloodchild" is my pregnant man story.”Octavia E. Butler
- “Once you grow past Mommy and Daddy coming running when you're hurt, you're really on your own. You're alone,…”Octavia E. Butler
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- “In drama school, I learned I wasn't as good as I thought I was. But I loved stage combat, and I knew that wou…”Philip Winchester
- “I look back at my old school journals, and they're full of self-hatred, full of me condemning myself for not…”Jameela Jamil
- “To me, if people think about wrestling, they think about elbow drops, body slams, and stringing somebody in t…”Cesaro
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Books by Octavia E. Butler
Kindred
1979
Fledgling
2005
Parable of the Sower
1993
Parable of the Talents
1998
Adulthood Rites
1988