Joanna Russ Quotes

The trouble with men is that they have limited minds. That's the trouble with women, too.

Joanna Russ

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• My love of music comes from as long as I remember. I begged my mum to learn piano for a year when I was 4; she wanted to make sure I was serious, and I wanted to be Chuck Berry when I grew up! We were a very musical family; my mum would play guitar, and her, my dad and aunt would sing and harmonize!

  

  Natalia Tena
  • Music
  • Family
  • Remember

• I had done some TV movies that were great experiences but, no, I wasn't looking to do a series.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Great
  • Done
  • Movies

• We should have completed the fight in Afghanistan instead of starting a new war in Iraq.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • War
  • Fight
  • New

• The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.

  

  Ed Parker
  • Man
  • Learn
  • Intelligent

• Your barber always knows everything that goes on in the town, doesn't he?

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Always
  • Everything
  • Barber

• I consider science fiction and fantasy my genre. And I've noticed over the years that there doesn't tend to be a lot of lighthearted, comedic stuff.

  

  Gail Carriger
  • Science
  • Science fiction

• Work is so much fun that it doesn't really seem like downtime when I'm not. But cooking, spending time with my family, friends and dog are what I'm usually doing when I'm not working on something.

  

  Bailee Madison
  • Time
  • Work
  • Family

• Court TV will always hold a special place in my heart, and I will always look back at my time there with great gratitude and affection.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Time
  • Great
  • Heart

• After every war, there was a significant change in the music, and I can understand how that happened. If you participate in protecting the country, you think you can be part of it, but you come back home and it's worse than ever.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Music
  • Country
  • Home

• The song This Kiss was definitely my breakthrough song. After that, Breathe was my breakthrough album.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Song
  • Kiss
  • Breathe

• America is essentially an entrepreneurial culture: the sizzle is the steak, because, after all, if you buy the sizzle, the steak comes with it. Canada's, in contrast, is a primary-producing culture: we'll buy the steak and hope to get a little sizzle with it. But we know we can't eat sizzle.

  

  Wayne Grady
  • America
  • Hope
  • Culture

• One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.

  

  Mae West
  • Work
  • You
  • Know

• The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It's all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Walking
  • Streets
  • Nuts

• I like to think of Everest as a great mountaineering challenge, and when you've got people just streaming up the mountain - well, many of them are just climbing it to get their name in the paper, really.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Money
  • Through
  • Some

• People have a moral standard about what they will do and will not do. At the end of the day someone who cheats has a lower moral standard than someone who does not. And they will cheat in other areas of life as well.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • People
  • Life
  • Day

• What I love about 'Midnight Train' is that it's a song about a journey, but the music actually takes you on that journey. It feels like you're moving through the whole song.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Music
  • Love
  • Song

• You have to follow that next step.

  

  Laura Moser
  • You
  • Step
  • Follow

• Having been kept pretty strict in prep schools, I guess I couldn't cope with all the freedom at Yale. I had a wild, wonderful time, got abysmal grades and was bounced out in my freshman year. I then came back the following fall as a repeating freshman, lasted until April and got bounced out again - for the same reason.

  

  Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.
  • Time
  • Pretty
  • Freedom

• If you cannot work on the marriage or the women is a moron, staying married and cheating makes the most sense because divorce is disruptive to the family life and your bank account.

  

  Al Goldstein
  • Life
  • Work
  • Women

• My first trophy in France was the Young Player of the Year. I was 17. Chelsea is not just one player. It is not only me. We have signed a lot of players. Now we have some good signings like Cesc Fabregas and Diego Costa.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Good
  • Me
  • Player

• The monkish vows keep us far from that sink of vice that is the female body, but often they bring us close to other errors. Can I finally hide from myself the fact that even today my old age is still stirred by the noonday demon when my eyes, in choir, happen to linger on the beardless face of a novice, pure and fresh as a maidens?

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Age
  • Today
  • Eyes

• There is also a doubt as to what is to be the supreme power in the state: - Is it the multitude? Or the wealthy? Or the good? Or the one best man? Or a tyrant?

  

  Aristotle
  • State
  • Wealthy
  • Tyrant

• The trouble with men is that they have limited minds. That's the trouble with women, too.

  

  Joanna Russ
  • Men
  • Women