Joanna Russ Quotes
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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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Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur.
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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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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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'Rational people,' said the man, 'realize that their lives must be made meaningful. Meaning isn’t just given us.'
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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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He wished his imagination would not take so impressionistic a turn. It never fails.
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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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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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'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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There are more whooping cranes in the United States of America than there are women in Congress.
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The trouble with men is that they have limited minds. That's the trouble with women, too.
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How withered away one can be from a life of unremitting toil.