Anyway everyboy (sorry) knows that what women have done that is really important is not to constitute a great, cheap labor force that you can zip in when you're at war and zip out again afterwards but to Be Mothers, to form the coming generation, to give birth to them, to nurse them, to mop floors for them, to love them, cook for them, clean for them, change their diapers, pick up after them, and mainly sacrifice themselves for them. This is the most important job in the world. That's why they don't pay you for it.
When the memory of one's predecessors is buried, the assumption persists that there were none and each generation of women believes itself to be face… - Joanna Russ
When the memory of one's predecessors is buried, the assumption persists that there were none and each generation of women believes itself to be face…
- Joanna Russ
Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur. - Joanna Russ
Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur.
How withered away one can be from a life of unremitting toil. - Joanna Russ
How withered away one can be from a life of unremitting toil.
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… - 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…
Ignorance is not bad faith. But persistence in ignorance is. - Joanna Russ
Ignorance is not bad faith. But persistence in ignorance is.
There are plenty of images of women in science fiction. There are hardly any women. - Joanna Russ
There are plenty of images of women in science fiction. There are hardly any women.
I'm not a girl. I'm a genius. - Joanna Russ
I'm not a girl. I'm a genius.
To die on a dying Earth - I'd live, if only to weep - Joanna Russ
To die on a dying Earth - I'd live, if only to weep
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 a… - Joanna Russ
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 a…
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