85 Quotes by Joanna Russ

How am I to put this together with my human life, my intellectual life, my solitude, my transcendence, my brains, and my fearful, fearful ambition?

I think it no accident that the myth of the isolated achievement so often promotes women writers’ less good work as their best work.

I cannot get into this swamp or I will never get out; and if I start crying again I’ll remember that I have no one to love, and if anyone treats me like that again, I’ll kill him. Only I mustn’t because they’ll punish me.

If you want me to do something else useful, you had better show me what that something else is.