“There's no being out too late in Whileaway, or up too early, or in the wrong part of town, or unescorted. You cannot fall out of the kinship web and become sexual prey for strangers, for there is no prey… — 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 be convicted of rape--I do not mean the man who did it, I mean the woman to whom… — 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“An as-yet-unpublished poet in Boulder, Colorado, once said to me that anything worth doing was worth doing badly.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