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Joanna Russ quotes: There are plenty of images of women in science fiction. There are hardly any women.

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

Joanna Russ quotes: Real artists, it seems to me, are those who don't repeat themselves.

Real artists, it seems to me, are those who don't repeat themselves.

Joanna Russ quotes: Life has to end. What a pity! Sometimes, when one is alone, the universe presses itself into one's hands: a plethora of joy, an organized plentitude.

Life has to end. What a pity! Sometimes, when one is alone, the universe presses itself into one's hands: a plethora of joy, an organized plentitude.

Joanna Russ quotes: Without meaningful work you might as well be dead.

Without meaningful work you might as well be dead.

Joanna Russ quotes: When one culture has the big guns and the other has none, there is a certain predictablity about the outcome.

When one culture has the big guns and the other has none, there is a certain predictablity about the outcome.

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

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

Joanna Russ quotes: How withered away one can be from a life of unremitting toil.

How withered away one can be from a life of unremitting toil.

Joanna Russ quotes: How am I to put this together with my human life, my intellectual life, my solitude, my transcendence, my brains, and my fearful, fearful ambition?

How am I to put this together with my human life, my intellectual life, my solitude, my transcendence, my brains, and my fearful, fearful ambition?

Joanna Russ quotes: [T]here is one and only one way to possess that in which we are defective, therefore that which we need, therefore that which we want. Become it.

[T]here is one and only one way to possess that in which we are defective, therefore that which we need, therefore that which we want. Become it.

Joanna Russ quotes: Sit a man on his ass with nothing to do but eat and the first thing that goes is his mind. It never fails.

Sit a man on his ass with nothing to do but eat and the first thing that goes is his mind. It never fails.

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

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

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

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 quotes: If you want me to do something else useful, you had better show me what that something else is.

If you want me to do something else useful, you had better show me what that something else is.

Joanna Russ quotes: Art is collective. Always, it has a tradition behind it.

Art is collective. Always, it has a tradition behind it.

Joanna Russ quotes: Privileged groups, like everyone else, want to think well of themselves and to believe that they are acting generously and justly.

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

Joanna Russ quotes: What future is there for a female child who aspires to being Humpfrey Bogart?

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

Joanna Russ quotes: Civilization must be preserved,' says he.'Civilization's doing fine,' I said. 'We just don't happen to be where it is.

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

Joanna Russ quotes: I left her wallpapering her much-loved, much-tended little corner of hell.

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

Joanna Russ quotes: Scholars don't usually sit gasping and sobbing in corners of the library stacks.But they should. They should.

Scholars don't usually sit gasping and sobbing in corners of the library stacks.
But they should. They should.

Joanna Russ quotes: Thus in the bad days, in the dark swampy times.

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

Joanna Russ quotes: After a while you tame your interior monsters, it's only natural. I don't mean that it ever stops; but it stops mattering.

After a while you tame your interior monsters, it's only natural. I don't mean that it ever stops; but it stops mattering.

Joanna Russ quotes: Courage is willful hope.

Courage is willful hope.

Joanna Russ quotes: I'm not a girl. I'm a genius.

I'm not a girl. I'm a genius.

Joanna Russ quotes: (Only God can make a tree and She seldom tries, nowadays.)

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

Joanna Russ quotes: Ignorance is not bad faith. But persistence in ignorance is.

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

Joanna Russ quotes: As my mother once said: The boys throw stones at the frog in jest. But the frogs die in earnest.

As my mother once said: The boys throw stones at the frog in jest. But the frogs die in earnest.

Joanna Russ quotes: Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur.

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

Joanna Russ quotes: For years I said Let me in, Love me, Approve me, Define me, Regulate me, Validate me, Support me. Now I say Move over.

For years I said Let me in, Love me, Approve me, Define me, Regulate me, Validate me, Support me. Now I say Move over.

Joanna Russ quotes: The trouble with men is that they have limited minds. That's the troublewith women, too." ["Existence" (1975)]

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

Joanna Russ quotes: Faith is not contrary to the usual ideas, something that turns out to be right or wrong, like a gambler's bet.

Faith is not contrary to the usual ideas, something that turns out to be right or wrong, like a gambler's bet.

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

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