"(Ezekial saw the wheel(Way up in the middle of the air --(O Ezekial saw the wheel(Way in the middle of the air!(Now the big wheel runs by faith(And the little wheel runs by the grace of God --(The abo..."
- Joanna Russ
"Long before I became a feminist in any explicit way, I had turned from writing love stories about women in which women were losers, and adventure stories about men in which the men were winners, to wr..."
"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 ex..."
"I know you're competent and your thesis advisor knows you're competent. The question in our minds is are you really serious about what you're doing?"This was said to a young woman who had already spen..."
"Civilization must be preserved,' says he.'Civilization's doing fine,' I said. 'We just don't happen to be where it is."
"There are plenty of images of women in science fiction. There are hardly any women."
"There is the vanity training, the obedience training, the self-effacement training, the deference training, the dependency training, the passivity training, the rivalry training, the stupidity trainin..."
"What did we talk about?I don't remember. We talked so hard and sat so still that I got cramps in my knee. We had too many cups of tea and then didn't want to leave the table to go to the bathroom beca..."
"Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur."
"Without meaningful work you might as well be dead."