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”. — 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“An as-yet-unpublished poet in Boulder, Colorado, once said to me that anything worth doing was worth doing badly.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 "right" value--i.e., art.) Denial of Agency: She didn't write it. Pollution of Agency: She shouldn't have written it. Double Standard of Content: Yes, but look what she wrote about. False Categorizing: She is not really she… — Joanna Russ Copy Share
“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, all of them talking, a stack of books in one arm, a mass of student papers in the other, seven committee reports wedged in between, as well as her small daughter in a backpack, and she… — 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 Image
The trouble with men is that they have limited minds. That's the trouble with women, too. — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
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