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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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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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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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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Dismissing the whole thing as the world’s aberration and not mine, I went back to bed.
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How withered away one can be from a life of unremitting toil.