Joanna Russ Quotes - Page 2

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

  Joanna Russ

  America, United States, Congress

  "The Female Man". Book by Joanna Russ (Part 4, Chapter 8, p. 61), February 1975.

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

  Joanna Russ

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

  Joanna Russ

  Art, Tradition, Behinds

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