85 Quotes by Joanna Russ

The trouble with men is that they have limited minds. That's the troublewith women, too." ["Existence" (1975)]

Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur.

Long before I became a feminist in any explicit way, I had turned from writing love stories about women in which women were losers, and adventure stories about men in which the men were winners, to writing adventure stories about a woman in which the woman won. It was one of the hardest things I ever did in my life.

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 express (and may very well operate to conceal).

The Winter solstice (you haven't lived if you haven't seen us running around in our skivvies, banging on pots and pans, shouting "Come back, sun! Goddammit, come back! Come back!

There are plenty of images of women in science fiction. There are hardly any women.

Then he said, leaning forward: ‘You’re strange animals, you women intellectuals. Tell me: what’s it like to be a woman?’ I took my rifle from behind my chair and shot him dead. ‘It’s like that,’ I said.

WE WUZ PUSHED.

I left her wallpapering her much-loved, much-tended little corner of hell.