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> [I didn’t and don’t want to be a ‘feminine’ version or a diluted version or a special version or a subsidiary version or an ancillary version, or an adapted version of the heroes I admire. I want to be the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-russ/i-didn-t-and-don-t-want-to-be-a-feminine-version-or-a-diluted-version/)

[Joanna Russ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joanna-russ/)

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## More by Joanna Russ

> [“Thus in the bad days, in the dark swampy times.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-russ/thus-in-the-bad-days-in-the-dark-swampy-times/)

[Joanna Russ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joanna-russ/)

> [“An as-yet-unpublished poet in Boulder, Colorado, once said to me that anything worth doing was worth doing badly. I may seem, in the foregoing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-russ/an-as-yet-unpublished-poet-in-boulder-colorado-once-said-to-me-that/)

[Joanna Russ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joanna-russ/)

> [“(Only God can make a tree and She seldom tries, nowadays.)”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-russ/only-god-can-make-a-tree-and-she-seldom-tries-nowadays/)

[Joanna Russ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joanna-russ/)

> [ “The trouble with men is that they have limited minds. That's the trouble with women, too." \[ "Existence" (1975)\]” ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-russ/the-trouble-with-men-is-that-they-have-limited-minds-that-s-the/)

[Joanna Russ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joanna-russ/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-russ/until-you-learn-better-you-think-that-a-landscaped-world-can-t-hurt/)

[Joanna Russ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joanna-russ/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-russ/the-techniques-are-all-means-of-dealing-with-one-simple-idea-she/)

[Joanna Russ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joanna-russ/)

> [“What future is there for a female child who aspires to being Humpfrey Bogart?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-russ/what-future-is-there-for-a-female-child-who-aspires-to-being-humpfrey/)

[Joanna Russ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joanna-russ/)

> [Ignorance is not bad faith. But persistence in ignorance is.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-russ/ignorance-is-not-bad-faith-but-persistence-in-ignorance-is/)

[Joanna Russ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joanna-russ/)

> [“I had planned to consult with a Black colleague, but when I approached her in the hall she had a crowd of students about,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-russ/i-had-planned-to-consult-with-a-black-colleague-but-when-i-approached/)

[Joanna Russ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joanna-russ/)

> [There are more whooping cranes in the United States of America than there are women in Congress.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-russ/there-are-more-whooping-cranes-in-the-united-states-of-america-than/)

[Joanna Russ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joanna-russ/)

> [“Courage is willful hope.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-russ/courage-is-willful-hope/)

[Joanna Russ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joanna-russ/)

> [The trouble with men is that they have limited minds. That's the trouble with women, too.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-russ/the-trouble-with-men-is-that-they-have-limited-minds-that-s-the-2/)

[Joanna Russ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joanna-russ/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-russ/i-cannot-get-into-this-swamp-or-i-will-never-get-out-and-if-i-start/)

[Joanna Russ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joanna-russ/)

> [Science fiction, as I mentioned before, writes about what is neither impossible nor possible; the fact is that, when the question of possibility comes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-russ/science-fiction-as-i-mentioned-before-writes-about-what-is-neither/)

[Joanna Russ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joanna-russ/)

> [“Somewhere there is a book that says you ought to cry buckets of tears over yourself and love yourself with a passion and wrap…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-russ/somewhere-there-is-a-book-that-says-you-ought-to-cry-buckets-of-tears/)

[Joanna Russ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joanna-russ/)

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