“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
“In my sleep I had a dream and this dream was a dream of guilt. It was not human guilt but the kind of helpless, hopeless despair that would be felt by a small wooden box or geometrical cube if… — 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“An as-yet-unpublished poet in Boulder, Colorado, once said to me that anything worth doing was worth doing badly.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