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

Ignorance is not bad faith. But persistence in ignorance is.

- Joanna Russ

Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur.

- Joanna Russ

How withered away one can be from a life of unremitting toil.

- Joanna Russ

To die on a dying Earth - I'd live, if only to weep

- 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…

- Joanna Russ

When one culture has the big guns and the other has none, there is a certain predictablity about the outcome.

- 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…

- Joanna Russ

As my mother once said: The boys throw stones at the frog in jest. But the frogs die in earnest.

- Joanna Russ