Joanna Russ Quotes - Page 2

• 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.

  Joanna Russ

  Thinking, Suffering, Fool

  Joanna Russ (1980). “On Strike Against God”, Crossing Pr

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• ... 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.

  Joanna Russ

  Taken, Garden, Each Day

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• You can't imbibe someone's success by f*cking them.

  Joanna Russ

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

  Joanna Russ

  Men, Mind, Firsts

  Joanna Russ (1978). “And chaos died”, Macmillan Reference USA

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• 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).

  Joanna Russ

  Class, Use, May

  Joanna Russ (1983). “How to Suppress Women's Writing”, p.125, University of Texas Press

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