Joanna Russ Quotes

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

I left her wallpapering her much-loved, much-tended little corner of hell.

And middle-class women, although taught to value established forms, are in the same position as the ...

Long before I became a feminist in any explicit way, I had turned from writing love stories about wo...

Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur.

There are plenty of images of women in science fiction. There are hardly any women.

The reply to this was that Three took out a small revolver, and this surprised me; for everyone know...

Privileged groups, like everyone else, want to think well of themselves and to believe that they are...

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

I know you're competent and your thesis advisor knows you're competent. The question in our minds is...

I had planned to consult with a Black colleague, but when I approached her in the hall she had a cro...

It's not that the authors are unskilled, but we must frequently venture outside our areas of origina...

The re-evaluation and rediscovery of minority art (including the cultural minority of women) is ofte...

The idea that any art is achieved 'intuitively' is a dehumanization of the brains, effort, and the t...

(Ezekial saw the wheel(Way up in the middle of the air --(O Ezekial saw the wheel(Way in the middle ...

What did we talk about?I don't remember. We talked so hard and sat so still that I got cramps in my ...

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

(Ezekial saw the wheel(Way up in the middle of the air --(O Ezekial saw the wheel(Way in the middle ...

Well, of course, you can't expect people to rearrange their minds in five minutes. And I'm not good ...

That not all men are piggy, only some; that not all men belittle me, only some; that not all men get...

The demon got up. The demon said Fool. To think you can eat their food and not talk to them. To thin...

Leaning her silly, beautiful, drunken head on my shoulder, she said, "Oh, Esther, I don't want to be...

This book is written in blood.Is it written entirely in blood?No, some of it is written in tears. Ar...

We would gladly have listened to her (they said) if only she had spoken like a lady. But they are li...

There is the vanity training, the obedience training, the self-effacement training, the deference tr...

This is the underside of my world.Of course you don’t want me to be stupid, bless you! you only want...

In college, educated women (I found out) were frigid; active women (I knew) were neurotic; women (we...

In my opinion, questions that are based on something real ought to be settled by something real with...

The game is a dominance game called I Must Impress This Woman. Failure makes the active player play ...

There's no being out too late in Whileaway, or up too early, or in the wrong part of town, or unesco...

And here, of course, we come to the one occupation of a female protagonist in literature, the one th...

To die on a dying Earth - I'd live, if only to weep.

Civilization must be preserved,' says he.'Civilization's doing fine,' I said. 'We just don't happen ...

If you want to live forever you are dreadfully dangerous because you're not living now.

Without meaningful work you might as well be dead.