Joanna Russ Quotes

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• Ignorance is not bad faith. But persistence in ignorance is.
• Privileged groups, like everyone else, want to think well of themselves and to believe that they are acting generously and justly.
• And middle-class women, although taught to value established forms, are in the same position as the working class: neither can use established forms to express…
• To die on a dying Earth - I'd live, if only to weep
• Art is collective. Always, it has a tradition behind it.
• I'm not a girl. I'm a genius.
• As my mother once said: The boys throw stones at the frog in jest. But the frogs die in earnest.
• Long before I became a feminist in any explicit way, I had turned from writing love stories about women in which women were losers, and…
• Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur.
• You can't imbibe someone's success by f*cking them.
• 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…
• There are plenty of images of women in science fiction. There are hardly any women.
• ....thinking you are attacking society when you condemn or ravage the hypothetical Nice Girl Next Door is the exact equivalent of thinking that stealing from…
• The demon got up. The demon said Fool. To think you can eat their food and not talk to them. To think you can take…
• Leaning her silly, beautiful, drunken head on my shoulder, she said, "Oh, Esther, I don't want to be a feminist. I don't enjoy it. It's…
• I didn’t and don’t want to be a ‘feminine’ version or a diluted version or a special version or a subsidiary version or an ancillary…
• Faith is not contrary to the usual ideas, something that turns out to be right or wrong, like a gambler's bet.

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