"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...












There are plenty of images of women in science fiction. There are hardly any women.
More Joanna Russ quotes
"The re-evaluation and rediscovery of minority art (including the cultural minority of women) is often conceived as a matter of remedying injustice and...
"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 ...
"There is the vanity training, the obedience training, the self-effacement training, the deference training, the dependency training, the passivity tra...
"In my opinion, questions that are based on something real ought to be settled by something real without all this damned lazy miserable drifting
"The game is a dominance game called I Must Impress This Woman. Failure makes the active player play harder. Wear a hunched back or a withered arm; you...
"There's no being out too late in Whileaway, or up too early, or in the wrong part of town, or unescorted. You cannot fall out of the kinship web and b...
"And here, of course, we come to the one occupation of a female protagonist in literature, the one thing she can do, and by God she does it and does it...