List of Joanna Russ Quotes

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Joanna Russ
Total Quotes 30
Art is collective. always, it has a tradition behind it.
Art Tradition Behinds
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).
Class Use May
You can't imbibe someone's success by f*cking them.
Sit a man on his ass with nothing to do but eat and the first thing that goes is his mind. it never fails.
Men Mind Firsts
... chastity is not given once and for all like a wedding ring that is put on never to be taken off, but is a garden which each day must be weeded, watered, and trimmed anew, or soon there will be only brambles and wilderness.
Taken Garden Each Day
The demon got up. the demon said fool. to think you can eat their food and not talk to them. to think you can take their money and not be afraid of them. to think you can depend on their company and not suffer from them.
Thinking Suffering Fool
There are more whooping cranes in the united states of america than there are women in congress.
America United States Congress
How withered away one can be from a life of unremitting toil.
Toil Withered
Leaning her silly, beautiful, drunken head on my shoulder, she said, "oh, esther, i don't want to be a feminist. i don't enjoy it. it's no fun." "i know," i said. "i don't either." people think you decide to be a "radical," for god's sake, like deciding to be a librarian or a ship's chandler. you "make up your mind," you "commit yourself" (sounds like a mental hospital, doesn't it?). i said don't worry, we could be buried together and have engraved on our tombstone the awful truth, which some day somebody will understand: we wuz pushed.
Beautiful Fun Tombstone
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.
Writing Adventure Men
The techniques are all means of dealing with one simple idea: she wrote it. (that is, the "wrong" person--in this case, female--has created the "right" value--i.e., art.) denial of agency: she didn't write it. pollution of agency: she shouldn't have written it. double standard of content: yes, but look what she wrote about. false categorizing: she is not really she [an artist] and it is not really it [serious, of the right genre, aesthetically sound, important, etc.] so how could "she" have written "it"? or simply: neither "she" nor "it" exists (simple exclusion).
Art Mean Writing
Privileged groups, like everyone else, want to think well of themselves and to believe that they are acting generously and justly.
Believe Thinking Acting
  • Born: February 22, 1937
  • Died: April 29, 2011
  • Occupation: Writer
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