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# Joanna Russ

(1937–2011)   Writer   United States

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Joanna Russ was a writer from the United States, best known for *Again, Dangerous Visions*.

## Quick Facts About Joanna Russ

Born February 22, 1937

Died April 29, 2011

Nationality United States

Profession Writer

Notable works Again, Dangerous Visions

Known for The Female Man, The Adventures of Alyx, The Two of Them, We Who Are About To..., When It Changed

## About Joanna Russ

Joanna Russ was an American writer, academic and feminist. She is the author of a number of works of science fiction, fantasy and feminist literary criticism such as How to Suppress Women's Writing, as well as a contemporary novel, On Strike Against God, and one children's book, Kittatinny. She is best known for The Female Man, a novel combining utopian fiction and satire, and the story "When It Changed".

## Awards & Honors

Hugo Award for Best Novella Nebula Award for Best Short Story Tähtivaeltaja Award Pilgrim Award Locus Award for Best Novella Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame Otherwise Retrospective Award

##  Quotes by Joanna Russ · Page 2

> [“If you want me to do something else useful, you had better show me what that something else is.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-russ/if-you-want-me-to-do-something-else-useful-you-had-better-show-me/)

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> [To act in a way both sexist and racist, to maintain one's class privilege, it is only necessary to act in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-russ/to-act-in-a-way-both-sexist-and-racist-to-maintain-one-s-class/)

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[Class](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/class/)

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> [I think we ought to decide that man-hating is not only respectable but honorable. To be a misandrist a woman needs considerable…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-russ/i-think-we-ought-to-decide-that-man-hating-is-not-only-respectable/)

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[Creativity](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/creativity/)

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> [“Somewhere there is a book that says you ought to cry buckets of tears over yourself and love yourself with a passion…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-russ/somewhere-there-is-a-book-that-says-you-ought-to-cry-buckets-of-tears/)

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> [“An as-yet-unpublished poet in Boulder, Colorado, once said to me that anything worth doing was worth doing badly. I may seem, in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-russ/an-as-yet-unpublished-poet-in-boulder-colorado-once-said-to-me-that/)

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[Art](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/art/)

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> [ \[T\]here is one and only one way to possess that in which we are defective, therefore that which we need, therefore that… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-russ/t-here-is-one-and-only-one-way-to-possess-that-in-which-we-are/)

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[Defective](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/defective/)

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> [“If you scream, people say you're melodramatic; if you submit, you’re masochistic; if you call names, you're a bitch. Hit him and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-russ/if-you-scream-people-say-you-re-melodramatic-if-you-submit-you-re/)

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[Kill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/kill/)

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> [“If you are a woman and wish to become pre-eminent in a field, it's a good idea to (a) invent it and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-russ/if-you-are-a-woman-and-wish-to-become-pre-eminent-in-a-field-it-s-a/)

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[Feminism](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/feminism/)

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> [... chastity is not given once and for all like a wedding ring that is put on never to be taken off,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-russ/chastity-is-not-given-once-and-for-all-like-a-wedding-ring-that-is/)

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[Chastity](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/chastity/)

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> [“What did we talk about? I don't remember. We talked so hard and sat so still that I got cramps in my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-russ/what-did-we-talk-about-i-don-t-remember-we-talked-so-hard-and-sat-so/)

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[Bad movie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bad-movie/)

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> [Leaning her silly, beautiful, drunken head on my shoulder, she said, "Oh, Esther, I don't want to be a feminist. I don't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-russ/leaning-her-silly-beautiful-drunken-head-on-my-shoulder-she-said-oh/)

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[Awful](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/awful/)

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> [Science fiction, as I mentioned before, writes about what is neither impossible nor possible; the fact is that, when the question of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-russ/science-fiction-as-i-mentioned-before-writes-about-what-is-neither/)

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> [“That not all men are piggy, only some; that not all men belittle me, only some; that not all men get mad…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-russ/that-not-all-men-are-piggy-only-some-that-not-all-men-belittle-me/)

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> [“In college, educated women (I found out) were frigid; active women (I knew) were neurotic; women (we all knew) were timid, incapable,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-russ/in-college-educated-women-i-found-out-were-frigid-active-women-i-knew/)

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[Another world](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/another-world/)

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> [“This book is written in blood. Is it written entirely in blood? No, some of it is written in tears. Are the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-russ/this-book-is-written-in-blood-is-it-written-entirely-in-blood-no-some/)

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> [“Finding The Man. Keeping The Man. Not scaring The Man, building up The Man, following The Man, soothing The Man, flattering The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-russ/finding-the-man-keeping-the-man-not-scaring-the-man-building-up-the/)

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[Gender roles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/gender-roles/)

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> [Long before I became a feminist in any explicit way, I had turned from writing love stories about women in which women…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-russ/long-before-i-became-a-feminist-in-any-explicit-way-i-had-turned-from/)

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[Adventure](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/adventure/)

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> [Privileged groups, like everyone else, want to think well of themselves and to believe that they are acting generously and justly.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-russ/privileged-groups-like-everyone-else-want-to-think-well-of-themselves/)

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[Acting](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/acting/)

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> [And middle-class women, although taught to value established forms, are in the same position as the working class: neither can use established…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-russ/and-middle-class-women-although-taught-to-value-established-forms-are/)

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[Class](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/class/)

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> [I didn’t and don’t want to be a ‘feminine’ version or a diluted version or a special version or a subsidiary version…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-russ/i-didn-t-and-don-t-want-to-be-a-feminine-version-or-a-diluted-version/)

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[Adapted](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/adapted/)

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> [“I have had my share of trouble and sickness but always somewhere in me there is a little spot of warmth and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-russ/i-have-had-my-share-of-trouble-and-sickness-but-always-somewhere-in/)

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[Cold night](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/cold-night/)

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> [“The social invisibility of women's experience is not "a failure of human communication." It is a socially arranged bias persisted in long…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-russ/the-social-invisibility-of-women-s-experience-is-not-a-failure-of/)

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[Communication](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/communication/)

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> [“Do not get glum when you are no longer understood, little book. Do not curse your fate. Do not reach up from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-russ/do-not-get-glum-when-you-are-no-longer-understood-little-book-do-not/)

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[Book](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/book/)

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> [“Until you learn better, you think that a landscaped world can't hurt you or please you, you needn't bother about its soul,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-russ/until-you-learn-better-you-think-that-a-landscaped-world-can-t-hurt/)

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[Spirituality](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/spirituality/)

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> [“You have on your history," said the artist, "and we're not used to that, believe me. Not to history. Not to old…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-russ/you-have-on-your-history-said-the-artist-and-we-re-not-used-to-that/)

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[Art](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/art/)

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> [The techniques are all means of dealing with one simple idea: She wrote it. (That is, the "wrong" person--in this case, female--has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-russ/the-techniques-are-all-means-of-dealing-with-one-simple-idea-she/)

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[Agency](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/agency/)

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> [“I said Jeannine why are you unhappy? I'm not unhappy. You have everything (I said). What is there that you want and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-russ/i-said-jeannine-why-are-you-unhappy-i-m-not-unhappy-you-have/)

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[Truck driver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/truck-driver/)

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> [When the memory of one's predecessors is buried, the assumption persists that there were none and each generation of women believes itself…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-russ/when-the-memory-of-one-s-predecessors-is-buried-the-assumption/)

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[Assumption](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/assumption/)

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> [“It's not that the authors are unskilled, but we must frequently venture outside our areas of original training. Either the work lies…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-russ/it-s-not-that-the-authors-are-unskilled-but-we-must-frequently/)

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[Books](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/books/)

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> [“When the memory of one's predecessors is buried, the assumption persists that there were none and each generation of women believes itself…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-russ/when-the-memory-of-one-s-predecessors-is-buried-the-assumption-2/)

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[First time](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/first-time/)

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> [“Now having Brynhildic fantasies about her was nothing--I have all sorts of extraordinary fantasies which I don't take seriously--but bringing my fantasies…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-russ/now-having-brynhildic-fantasies-about-her-was-nothing-i-have-all/)

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[Fantasies](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fantasies/)

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> [“At the level of high culture with which this book is concerned, active bigotry is probably fairly rare. It is also hardly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-russ/at-the-level-of-high-culture-with-which-this-book-is-concerned-active/)

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[Bigotry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bigotry/)

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> [Anyway everyboy (sorry) knows that what women have done that is really important is not to constitute a great, cheap labor force…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-russ/anyway-everyboy-sorry-knows-that-what-women-have-done-that-is-really/)

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[Birth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/birth/)

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> [“I think," said my neighbour, her chin very high in the air (and still spiffed, I am glad to say) "that women…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-russ/i-think-said-my-neighbour-her-chin-very-high-in-the-air-and-still/)

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[Children](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/children/)

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> [“He's beginning to like me. I am a better and better audience as I get numbed, and although I've played this game…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-russ/he-s-beginning-to-like-me-i-am-a-better-and-better-audience-as-i-get/)

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[Football](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/football/)

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> [“In my sleep I had a dream and this dream was a dream of guilt. It was not human guilt but the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-russ/in-my-sleep-i-had-a-dream-and-this-dream-was-a-dream-of-guilt-it-was/)

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[Dream](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dream/)

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> [“Alas, it was never meant for us to hear. It was never meant for us to know. We ought never be taught…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-russ/alas-it-was-never-meant-for-us-to-hear-it-was-never-meant-for-us-to/)

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[Meant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/meant/)

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> [“Well, of course, you can't expect people to rearrange their minds in five minutes. And I'm not good at this. And I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-russ/well-of-course-you-can-t-expect-people-to-rearrange-their-minds-in/)

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[Feminism](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/feminism/)

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> [“The re-evaluation and rediscovery of minority art (including the cultural minority of women) is often conceived as a matter of remedying injustice…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-russ/the-re-evaluation-and-rediscovery-of-minority-art-including-the/)

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[Art](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/art/)

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> [“There's no being out too late in Whileaway, or up too early, or in the wrong part of town, or unescorted. You…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-russ/there-s-no-being-out-too-late-in-whileaway-or-up-too-early-or-in-the/)

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## Joanna Russ by topic

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                        "text": "... chastity is not given once and for all like a wedding ring that is put on never to be taken off, but is a garden which each day must be weeded, watered, and trimmed anew, or soon there will be only brambles and wilderness.",
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                        "text": "“What did we talk about? I don't remember. We talked so hard and sat so still that I got cramps in my knee. We had too many cups of tea and then didn't want to leave the table to go to the bathroom because we didn't want to stop talking. You will think we talked of revolution but we didn't. Nor did we talk of our own souls. Nor of sewing. Nor of babies. Nor of departmental intrigue. It was political if by politics you mean the laboratory talk that characters in bad movies are perpetually trying to convey (unsuccessfully) when they Wrinkle Their Wee Brows and say (valiantly--dutifully--after all, they didn't write it) \"But, Doctor, doesn't that violate Finagle's Constant?\" I staggered to the bathroom, released floods of tea, and returned to the kitchen to talk. It was professional talk. It left my grey-faced and with such concentration that I began to develop a headache. We talked about Mary Ann Evans' loss of faith, about Emily Brontë's isolation, about Charlotte Brontë's blinding cloud, about the split in Virginia Woolf's head and the split in her economic condition. We talked about Lady Murasaki, who wrote in a form that no respectable man would touch, Hroswit, a little name whose plays \"may perhaps amuse myself,\" Miss Austen, who had no more expression in society than a firescreen or a poker. They did not all write letters, write memoirs, or go on the stage. Sappho--only an ambiguous, somewhat disagreeable name. Corinna? The teacher of Pindar. Olive Schriener, growing up on the veldt, wrote on book, married happily, and ever wrote another. Kate Chopin wrote a scandalous book and never wrote another. (Jean has written nothing.). There was M-ry Sh-ll-y who wrote you know what and Ch-rl-tt- P-rk-ns G-lm-an, who wrote one superb horror study and lots of sludge (was it sludge?) and Ph-ll-s Wh--tl-y who was black and wrote eighteenth century odes (but it was the eighteenth century) and Mrs. -nn R-dcl-ff- S-thw-rth and Mrs. G--rg- Sh-ld-n and (Miss?) G--rg-tt- H-y-r and B-rb-r- C-rtl-nd and the legion of those, who writing, write not, like the dead Miss B--l-y of the poem who was seduced into bad practices (fudging her endings) and hanged herself in her garter. The sun was going down. I was blind and stiff. It's at this point that the computer (which has run amok and eaten Los Angeles) is defeated by some scientifically transcendent version of pulling the plug; the furniture stood around unknowing (though we had just pulled out the plug) and Lady, who got restless when people talked at suck length because she couldn't understand it, stuck her head out from under the couch, looking for things to herd. We had talked for six hours, from one in the afternoon until seven; I had at that moment an impression of our act of creation so strong, so sharp, so extraordinarily vivid, that I could not believe all our talking hadn't led to something more tangible--mightn't you expect at least a little blue pyramid sitting in the middle of the floor?”",
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                        "text": "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 no fun.\" \"I know,\" I said. \"I don't either.\" People think you decide to be a \"radical,\" for God's sake, like deciding to be a librarian or a ship's chandler. You \"make up your mind,\" you \"commit yourself\" (sounds like a mental hospital, doesn't it?). I said Don't worry, we could be buried together and have engraved on our tombstone the awful truth, which some day somebody will understand: WE WUZ PUSHED.",
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                        "text": "“That not all men are piggy, only some; that not all men belittle me, only some; that not all men get mad if you won’t let them play Chivalry, only some; that not all men write books in which women are idiots, only most; that not all men pull rank on me, only some; that not all men pinch their secretaries’ asses, only some; that not all men make obscene remarks to me in the street, only some; that not all men make more money than I do, only some; that not all men make more money than all women, only most; that not all men are rapists, only some; that not all men are promiscuous killers, only some; that not all men control Congress, the Presidency, the police, the army, industry, agriculture, law, science, medicine, architecture, and local government, only some. I sat down on the lawn and wept.”",
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                        "text": "“You have on your history,\" said the artist, \"and we're not used to that, believe me. Not to history. Not to old she-wolves with livid marks running up their ribs and arms, and not to the idea of fights in which people are neither painlessly killed nor painlessly fixed up but linger and die--slowly--or heal--slowly.”",
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                        "text": "“Alas, it was never meant for us to hear. It was never meant for us to know. We ought never be taught to read. We fight through the constant male refractoriness of our surroundings; our souls are torn out of us with such shock that there isn't even any blood. Remember: 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 version, or an adapted version of the heroes I admire. I want to be the heroes themselves.”",
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