Joanna Russ Quotes
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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I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.
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If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don't stop, don't put it down.
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Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.
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The beautiful remains so in ugly surroundings.
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I love and adore being a mother. It's the greatest gift I've ever been given.
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I'm in a constant state of gratitude.
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I feel that, at this point in my career, I don't want to do another television show. I don't want to do a film.
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Versace designs have always been bootlegged. Now it's Versace bootlegging the bootleg for the bootleggers to bootleg the bootleg.
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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Change is inevitable. Things absolutely cannot stay the same. The type of change we invoke is up to each and every one of us.
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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
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The journey matters as much as the goal.
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The English are good at bad guys - the James Bond-style villain, cunning, slow-burning. The Americans are much more obvious about it.
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Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.
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Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.
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In 70s America, protest used to be very effective, but in subsequent decades municipalities have sneakily created a web of 'overpermiticisation' - requirements that were designed to stifle freedom of assembly and the right to petition government for redress of grievances, both of which are part of our first amendment.
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The U.S. routinely ranks lower than other countries in health outcomes such as infant mortality.
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Tennis Australia really led the charge as far as upping the prize money and trying to do the right thing by the players. They also led the way so women have equal prize money in all the grand slams too.
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You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.
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When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to assume that their president, hostile to the principles that formed the nation and determined to act with malice toward its inhabitants by suppressing their rights and enabling its enemies to prosper in their attempts to destroy it, must be confronted, a rational response for the nation is to encumber itself no more with such a president and reject his authority and the acolytes who carry out his wishes.
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For women, even if she's nerdy enough to be Steve Jobs, she's undateable.
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Being together, we harm nobody; being apart, we extinguish ourselves.
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Christmas is a season of such infinite labour, as well as expense in the shopping and present-making line, that almost every woman I know is good for nothing in purse and person for a month afterwards, done up physically, and broken down financially.
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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.
