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Joanna Russ Quotes

Joanna Russ quotes

American Writer February 22, 1937 – April 29, 2011

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Long before I became a feminist in any explicit way, I had turned from writing love stories about women in which women were losers, and adventure stories about men in which the men were winners, to writing adventure stories about a woman in which the woman won. It was one of the hardest things I ever did in my life. Joanna Russ
And middle-class women, although taught to value established forms, are in the same position as the working class: neither can use established forms to express what the forms were never intended to express (and may very well operate to conceal). Joanna Russ
Leaning her silly, beautiful, drunken head on my shoulder, she said, "Oh, Esther, I don't want to be a feminist. I don't enjoy it. It's no fun." "I know," I said. "I don't either." People think you decide to be a "radical," for God's sake, like deciding to be a librarian or a ship's chandler. You "make up your mind," you "commit yourself" (sounds like a mental hospital, doesn't it?). I said Don't worry, we could be buried together and have engraved on our tombstone the awful truth, which... Joanna Russ
Watch: (1) You do something nasty to me. (2) I hate you. (3) You find it uncomfortable to be hated. (4) You think how nice it would be if I didn't hate you. (5) You decide I ought not to hate you because hate is bad. (6) Good people don’t hate. (7) Because I hate you I am a bad person. (8) It is not what you did to me that makes me hate you, it is my own bad nature. I—not you—am the cause of my hating you. Joanna Russ
....thinking you are attacking society when you condemn or ravage the hypothetical Nice Girl Next Door is the exact equivalent of thinking that stealing from the local supermarket makes you a Communist. Joanna Russ
This book is written in blood. Is it written entirely in blood? No, some of it is written in tears. Are the blood and tears all mine? Yes, they have been in the past, but the future is a different matter. As the bear swore in Pogo after having endured a pot shoved on her head, being turned upside down while still in the pot, a discussion about her edibility, the lawnmowering of her behind, and a fistful of ground pepper in the snoot, she then swore a mighty oath on the ashes of her... Joanna Russ
Joanna Russ quote: "You can't imbibe someone's success by f*cking them."
You can't imbibe someone's success by f*cking them. Joanna Russ
Joanna Russ quote: "I'm not a girl. I'm a genius."
I'm not a girl. I'm a genius. Joanna Russ
The demon got up. The demon said Fool. To think you can eat their food and not talk to them. To think you can take their money and not be afraid of them. To think you can depend on their company and not suffer from them. Joanna Russ
Joanna Russ quote: "As my mother once said: The boys throw stones at the frog in..."
As my mother once said: The boys throw stones at the frog in jest. But the frogs die in earnest. Joanna Russ
Joanna Russ quote: "The trouble with men is that they have limited minds. That's..."
The trouble with men is that they have limited minds. That's the troublewith women, too." ["Existence" (1975)] Joanna Russ
Joanna Russ quote: "There are plenty of images of women in science fiction. There..."
There are plenty of images of women in science fiction. There are hardly any women. Joanna Russ
Joanna Russ quote: "(Only God can make a tree and She seldom tries, nowadays.)"
(Only God can make a tree and She seldom tries, nowadays.) Joanna Russ
I once asked a young dissertation writer whether her suddenly grayed hair was due to ill health or personal tragedy; she answered: “It was the footnotes”. Joanna Russ
Joanna Russ quote: "Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the..."
Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur. Joanna Russ

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