“The trouble with men is that they have limited minds. That's the trouble with women, too." [ "Existence" (1975)]” — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
....thinking you are attacking society when you condemn or ravage the hypothetical Nice Girl Next Door is the exact equivalent of thinking… — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
Leaning her silly, beautiful, drunken head on my shoulder, she said, "Oh, Esther, I don't want to be a feminist. I don't… — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
The demon got up. The demon said Fool. To think you can eat their food and not talk to them. To think… — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
When the memory of one's predecessors is buried, the assumption persists that there were none and each generation of women believes itself… — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
I think we ought to decide that man-hating is not only respectable but honorable. To be a misandrist a woman needs considerable… — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
Privileged groups, like everyone else, want to think well of themselves and to believe that they are acting generously and justly. — 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“An as-yet-unpublished poet in Boulder, Colorado, once said to me that anything worth doing was worth doing badly.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