25 Quotes by James Tiptree Jr.


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    There's nothing in the news except what they want people to know. Half the country could burn up and nobody would know it if they didn't want.

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    the neat sign which for so long had read, THE CENTRAL PROBLEM OF OUR LIVES IS GARBAGE. PLEASE CLEAN YOUR SERVERS, has been changed: someone has taped over GARBAGE and lettered BEAUTY.

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    Women have no rights, Don, except what men allow us. Men are more aggressive and powerful, and they run the world. When the next real crisis upsets them, our so-called rights will vanish like—like that smoke. We’ll be back where we always were: property. And whatever has gone wrong will be blamed on our freedom, like the fall of Rome was. You’ll see.

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    A love that is not sated Calls from a poisoned bed; Where monsters half-created writhe, unliving and undead. None knows for what they’re fated; None knows on what they’ve fed.

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    It’s an overreaction, my dear. History goes by swings. People overreact and pass harsh unrealistic laws which attempt to stamp out an essential social process. When this happens, the people who understand have to carry on as best they can until the pendulum swings back.

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