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Joanna Russ Quotes - Page 2

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

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.

... 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

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

Joanna Russ

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

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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