“I had planned to consult with a Black colleague, but when I approached her in the hall she had a crowd of… — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
Science fiction, as I mentioned before, writes about what is neither impossible nor possible; the fact is that, when the question of… — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
“Somewhere there is a book that says you ought to cry buckets of tears over yourself and love yourself with a passion… — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
“At the level of high culture with which this book is concerned, active bigotry is probably fairly rare. It is also hardly… — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
“And here, of course, we come to the one occupation of a female protagonist in literature, the one thing she can do,… — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
“Do not get glum when you are no longer understood, little book. Do not curse your fate. Do not reach up from… — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
“The little blue book was rattling around in my purse. I took it out and turned to the last thing he had… — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
“That not all men are piggy, only some; that not all men belittle me, only some; that not all men get mad… — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
“This book is written in blood. Is it written entirely in blood? No, some of it is written in tears. Are the… — 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
“An as-yet-unpublished poet in Boulder, Colorado, once said to me that anything worth doing was worth doing badly.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 Image
“The trouble with men is that they have limited minds. That's the trouble with women, too." [ "Existence" (1975)]” — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“What future is there for a female child who aspires to being Humpfrey Bogart?” — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
“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 Image
There are more whooping cranes in the United States of America than there are women in Congress. — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
The trouble with men is that they have limited minds. That's the trouble with women, too. — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image