85 Quotes by Joanna Russ

To act in a way both sexist and racist, to maintain one's class privilege, it is only necessary to act in the customary, ordinary, usual, even polite manner.

Science fiction, as I mentioned before, writes about what is neither impossible nor possible; the fact is that, when the question of possibility comes up in science fiction, the author can only reply that nobody knows. We haven't been there yet. We haven't discovered that yet. Science fiction hasn't happened.

I didn’t and don’t want to be a ‘feminine’ version or a diluted version or a special version or a subsidiary version or an ancillary version, or an adapted version of the heroes I admire. I want to be the heroes themselves.

The trouble with men is that they have limited minds. That's the trouble with women, too.

To die on a dying Earth - I'd live, if only to weep

As my mother once said: The boys throw stones at the frog in jest. But the frogs die in earnest.

To die on a dying Earth – I’d live, if only to weep.

I’m not a girl. I’m a genius.

The trouble with men is that they have limited minds. That’s the trouble with women, too.