85 Quotes by Joanna Russ

I'm not a girl. I'm a genius.

Art is collective. Always, it has a tradition behind it.

Sit a man on his ass with nothing to do but eat and the first thing that goes is his mind. It never fails.

Real artists, it seems to me, are those who don't repeat themselves.

How withered away one can be from a life of unremitting toil.

There are more whooping cranes in the United States of America than there are women in Congress.

Anyway everyboy (sorry) knows that what women have done that is really important is not to constitute a great, cheap labor force that you can zip in when you're at war and zip out again afterwards but to Be Mothers, to form the coming generation, to give birth to them, to nurse them, to mop floors for them, to love them, cook for them, clean for them, change their diapers, pick up after them, and mainly sacrifice themselves for them. This is the most important job in the world. That's why they don't pay you for it.

....thinking you are attacking society when you condemn or ravage the hypothetical Nice Girl Next Door is the exact equivalent of thinking that stealing from the local supermarket makes you a Communist.

I think we ought to decide that man-hating is not only respectable but honorable. To be a misandrist a woman needs considerable ingenuity, originality, and resilience. A misogynist requires no such resources.