Books Quote by Joanna Russ

“Thus in the bad days, in the dark swampy times.”

— Joanna Russ

“An as-yet-unpublished poet in Boulder, Colorado, once said to me that anything worth doing was worth doing badly.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

“(Only God can make a tree and She seldom tries, nowadays.)”

— Joanna Russ

“The trouble with men is that they have limited minds. That's the trouble with women, too." [ "Existence" (1975)]”

— Joanna Russ

“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

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

“What future is there for a female child who aspires to being Humpfrey Bogart?”

— Joanna Russ

Ignorance is not bad faith. But persistence in ignorance is.

— Joanna Russ

There are more whooping cranes in the United States of America than there are women in Congress.

— Joanna Russ

“Courage is willful hope.”

— Joanna Russ

The trouble with men is that they have limited minds. That's the trouble with women, too.

— Joanna Russ

“I cannot get into this swamp or I will never get out; and if I start crying again I'll remember that I have no…

— Joanna Russ