“ We would gladly have listened to her (they said) if only she had spoken like a lady. But they are liars and the truth is not in them.Shrill… vituperative… no concern for the future of society… maunder… Joanna Russ
“ In my opinion, questions that are based on something real ought to be settled by something real without all this damned lazy miserable drifting Joanna Russ
“ It's not that the authors are unskilled, but we must frequently venture outside our areas of original training. Either the work lies outside anybody's area of original training, or orthodox criticism… Joanna Russ
“ Leaning her silly, beautiful, drunken head on my shoulder, she said, "Oh, Esther, I don't want to be a feminist. I don't enjoy it. It's no fun.""I know," I said. "I don't either." People think you dec… Joanna Russ
“ The demon got up. The demon said Fool. To think you can eat their food and not talk to them. To think you can take their money and not be afraid of them. To think you can depend on their company and n… Joanna Russ
“ This is the underside of my world.Of course you don’t want me to be stupid, bless you! you only want to make sure you’re intelligent. You don’t want me to commit suicide; you only want me to be gratef… Joanna Russ
“ There is the vanity training, the obedience training, the self-effacement training, the deference training, the dependency training, the passivity training, the rivalry training, the stupidity trainin… Joanna Russ
“ And middle-class women, although taught to value established forms, are in the same position as the working class: neither can use established forms to express what the forms were never intended to ex… Joanna Russ
“ (Ezekial saw the wheel(Way up in the middle of the air --(O Ezekial saw the wheel(Way in the middle of the air!(Now the big wheel runs by faith(And the little wheel runs by the grace of God --(The abo… Joanna Russ
“ There's no being out too late in Whileaway, or up too early, or in the wrong part of town, or unescorted. You cannot fall out of the kinship web and become sexual prey for strangers, for there is no p… Joanna Russ
“ If you want to live forever you are dreadfully dangerous because you're not living now. Joanna Russ
“ The idea that any art is achieved 'intuitively' is a dehumanization of the brains, effort, and the traditions of the artist, and a classification of said artist as subhuman. It is those supposed incap… Joanna Russ
“ Civilization must be preserved,' says he.'Civilization's doing fine,' I said. 'We just don't happen to be where it is. Joanna Russ
“ I know you're competent and your thesis advisor knows you're competent. The question in our minds is are you really serious about what you're doing?"This was said to a young woman who had already spen… Joanna Russ
