Joanna Russ Quotes
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Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur.
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Faith is not contrary to the usual ideas, something that turns out to be right or wrong, like a gambler's bet.
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Fucking, if you will forgive the pun, is an anti-climax.
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Remember, I don’t threaten. I don’t play. I always carry firearms. The truly violent are never without them.
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'And you think they’ll let you,' said Machine. It was a flat, sad statement.'No,' she said, 'but nobody ever let me do anything in my life before and I never let that stop me.'
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Remember: I didn’t and don’t want to be a 'feminine' version or a diluted version or a special version or a subsidiary version or an ancillary version, or an adapted version of the heroes I admire. I want to be the heroes themselves.What future is there for a female child who aspires to being Humphrey Bogart?
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I told him to open his eyes, that I didn’t want to kill him with his eyes shut, for God’s sake.
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He wished his imagination would not take so impressionistic a turn. It never fails.
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Sit a man on his ass with nothing to do but eat and the first thing that goes is his mind. It never fails.
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There are more whooping cranes in the United States of America than there are women in Congress.
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Dismissing the whole thing as the world’s aberration and not mine, I went back to bed.
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'Rational people,' said the man, 'realize that their lives must be made meaningful. Meaning isn’t just given us.'
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'Well, hell,' said Jael more genuinely, 'the war. If there isn’t one, there just was one, and if there wasn’t one, there soon will be one. Eh? The war between Us and Them.
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The trouble with men is that they have limited minds. That's the trouble with women, too.