“If you are a woman and wish to become pre-eminent in a field, it's a good idea to (a) invent it and… — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
“It's not that the authors are unskilled, but we must frequently venture outside our areas of original training. Either the work lies… — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
“When the memory of one's predecessors is buried, the assumption persists that there were none and each generation of women believes itself… — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
“What did we talk about? I don't remember. We talked so hard and sat so still that I got cramps in my… — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
“I think it no accident that the myth of the isolated achievement so often promotes women writers' less good work as their… — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
“An as-yet-unpublished poet in Boulder, Colorado, once said to me that anything worth doing was worth doing badly. I may seem, in the foregoing… — Joanna Russ Copy Share
“The trouble with men is that they have limited minds. That's the trouble with women, too." [ "Existence" (1975)]” — Joanna Russ Copy Share
“Until you learn better, you think that a landscaped world can't hurt you or please you, you needn't bother about its soul, you needn't… — Joanna Russ Copy Share
The techniques are all means of dealing with one simple idea: She wrote it. (That is, the "wrong" person--in this case, female--has created the… — Joanna Russ Copy Share
“What future is there for a female child who aspires to being Humpfrey Bogart?” — Joanna Russ Copy Share
“I had planned to consult with a Black colleague, but when I approached her in the hall she had a crowd of students about,… — Joanna Russ Copy Share
There are more whooping cranes in the United States of America than there are women in Congress. — Joanna Russ Copy Share
The trouble with men is that they have limited minds. That's the trouble with women, too. — Joanna Russ Copy Share
“I cannot get into this swamp or I will never get out; and if I start crying again I'll remember that I have no… — Joanna Russ Copy Share
Science fiction, as I mentioned before, writes about what is neither impossible nor possible; the fact is that, when the question of possibility comes… — Joanna Russ Copy Share
“Somewhere there is a book that says you ought to cry buckets of tears over yourself and love yourself with a passion and wrap… — Joanna Russ Copy Share
