Joanna Russ Quotes - Page 2

• 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.

  Joanna Russ

  Beautiful, Fun, Tombstone

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

  Joanna Russ

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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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• 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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