--- title: "Best Joanna Russ Sayings" description: "Joanna Russ was an American writer, academic and feminist. Browse 84 Joanna Russ quotes." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b013/author-joanna-russ-50243.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Joanna Russ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b013/author-joanna-russ-50243.jpg) # Joanna Russ (1937–2011) Writer United States **84** quotes in **342** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet 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 3 > [“I had planned to consult with a Black colleague, but when I approached her in the hall she had a crowd of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-russ/i-had-planned-to-consult-with-a-black-colleague-but-when-i-approached/) [Joanna Russ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joanna-russ/) [Books](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/books/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d0/joanna-russ-7942_books_i-had-planned-to-consult-with-a-black-co_357666.jpg) > [“Watch: (1) You do something nasty to me. (2) I hate you. (3) You find it uncomfortable to be hated. (4) You…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-russ/watch-1-you-do-something-nasty-to-me-2-i-hate-you-3-you-find-it/) [Joanna Russ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joanna-russ/) [Bad person](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bad-person/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a8c/joanna-russ-7942_bad-person_watch-1-you-do-something-nasty-to-me-2-i_1462800.jpg) > [“There is the vanity training, the obedience training, the self-effacement training, the deference training, the dependency training, the passivity training, the rivalry…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-russ/there-is-the-vanity-training-the-obedience-training-the-self/) [Joanna Russ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joanna-russ/) [Feminism](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/feminism/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f78/joanna-russ-7942_feminism_there-is-the-vanity-training-the-obedien_750892.jpg) > [“Now in my eleven years of conventional life I had learned many things and one of them is what it means to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-russ/now-in-my-eleven-years-of-conventional-life-i-had-learned-many-things/) [Joanna Russ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joanna-russ/) [Bad thing](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bad-thing/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/171/joanna-russ-7942_bad-thing_now-in-my-eleven-years-of-conventional-l_2690037.jpg) ## Joanna Russ by topic [Feminism (24)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/feminism/joanna-russ/) [Books (10)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/books/joanna-russ/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joanna-russ/#itemlist", "name": "Joanna Russ Quotes", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“I had planned to consult with a Black colleague, but when I approached her in the hall she had a crowd of students about, all of them talking, a stack of books in one arm, a mass of student papers in the other, seven committee reports wedged in between, as well as her small daughter in a backpack, and she was looking surreptitiously at her watch. 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Rape is one of the Christian mysteries, it creates a luminous and beautiful tableau in people's minds; and as I listened furtively to what nobody would allow me to hear straight out, I slowly came to understand that I was face to face with one of those feminine disasters, like pregnancy, like disease, like weakness; she was not only the victim of the act but in some strange way its perpetrator; somehow she had attracted the lightening that struck her out of a clear sky. A diabolical chance-- which was not chance --had revealed her to all of us as she truly was, in her secret inadequacy, in that wretched guiltiness which she had kept hidden for seventeen years but which now finally manifested in front of everybody. Her secret guilt was this: She was Cunt. She had \"lost\" something. Now the other party to the incident had manifested his essential nature, too; he was Prick--but being Prick is not a bad thing. In fact, he had \"gotten away with\" something (possibly what she had \"lost\"). And there I was at eleven years of age: She was out late at night. She was in the wrong part of town. Her skirt was too short and that provoked him. She liked having her eye blacked and her head banged against the sidewalk. I understood this perfectly. (I reflected thus in my dream, in my state of being a pair of eyes in a small wooden box stuck forever on a grey, geometric plane--or so I thought.) I too had been guilty of what had been done to me, when I came home from the playground in tears because I had been beaten up by bigger children who were bullies. I was dirty. I was crying. I demanded comfort. I was being inconvenient. 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