"And middle-class women, although taught to value established forms, are in the same position as the working class: neither can use established forms t...

In my opinion, questions that are based on something real ought to be settled by something real without all this damned lazy miserable drifting
~ Joanna Russ ~












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"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...
"It's not that the authors are unskilled, but we must frequently venture outside our areas of original training. Either the work lies outside anybody's...
"(Ezekial saw the wheel(Way up in the middle of the air --(O Ezekial saw the wheel(Way in the middle of the air!(Now the big wheel runs by faith(And th...
"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 ...
"(Only God can make a tree and She seldom tries, nowadays.)
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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 don't want to do it. It's a bore, a...
"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 their money and not be afraid of th...
"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 kno...
"We would gladly have listened to her (they said) if only she had spoken like a lady. But they are liars and the truth is not in them.Shrill… vituperat...