25 Quotes by James Tiptree Jr.

I dreamed horse and lived horse and expected, if necessary, to marry a horse; for all practical purposes I was a horse.

You can understand why a system would seek information – but why in hell does it offer information? Why do we strive to be understood? Why is a refusal to accept communication so painful?

I cannot teach – if I teach as teaching should be I become so exhausted I nearly die, I seem to have no middle gear.

Any chance beats no chance.

I’ve had too many experiences in my life of being the first woman in some damned occupation.

The only way I can possibly heat my so-called mind up to working temperature is to imagine I’m talking to someone I admire.

Being, I imagine, must be very simple. It is Becoming which is so messy and which I am all for.