“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
“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
“(Ezekial saw the wheel (Way up in the middle of the air -- (O Ezekial saw the wheel (Way in the middle… — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
“There is the vanity training, the obedience training, the self-effacement training, the deference training, the dependency training, the passivity training, the rivalry… — 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
“Well, of course, you can't expect people to rearrange their minds in five minutes. And I'm not good at this. And I… — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
“The game is a dominance game called I Must Impress This Woman. Failure makes the active player play harder. Wear a hunched… — 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
“This is the underside of my world. Of course you don’t want me to be stupid, bless you! you only want to… — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
“In college, educated women (I found out) were frigid; active women (I knew) were neurotic; women (we all knew) were timid, incapable,… — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
Long before I became a feminist in any explicit way, I had turned from writing love stories about women in which women… — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
“I think," said my neighbour, her chin very high in the air (and still spiffed, I am glad to say) "that women… — 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
“Now in my eleven years of conventional life I had learned many things and one of them is what it means to… — 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
“An as-yet-unpublished poet in Boulder, Colorado, once said to me that anything worth doing was worth doing badly.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
