Joanna Russ Short Quotes

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Fucking, if you will forgive the pun, is an anti-climax.

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How withered away one can be from a life of unremitting toil.

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He wished his imagination would not take so impressionistic a turn. It never fails.

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There are plenty of images of women in science fiction. There are hardly any women.

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Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur.

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Dismissing the whole thing as the world's aberration and not mine, I went back to bed.

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The trouble with men is that they have limited minds. That's the trouble with women, too.

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I told him to open his eyes, that I didn't want to kill him with his eyes shut, for God's sake.

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There are more whooping cranes in the United States of America than there are women in Congress.

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As my mother once said: The boys throw stones at the frogs in jest.
But the frogs die in earnest.

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Sit a man on his ass with nothing to do but eat and the first thing that goes is his mind. It never fails.

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Remember, I don't threaten. I don't play. I always carry firearms. The truly violent are never without them.

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When one culture has the big guns and the other has none, there is a certain predictablity about the outcome.

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Rational people, said the man, realize that their lives must be made meaningful. Meaning isn't just given us.

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Privileged groups, like everyone else, want to think well of themselves and to believe that they are acting generously and justly.

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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.

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To act in a way both sexist and racist, to maintain one's class privilege, it is only necessary to act in the customary, ordinary, usual, even polite manner.

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Well, hell, said Jael more genuinely, the war. If there isn't one, there just was one, and if there wasn't one, there soon will be one. Eh? The war between Us and Them.

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And you think they'll let you, said Machine. It was a flat, sad statement.
No, she said, but nobody ever let me do anything in my life before and I never let that stop me.

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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.

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