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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Courage is willful hope. — Joanna Russ

I'm not a girl. I'm a genius. — Joanna Russ

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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