“As my mother once said: The boys throw stones at the frogs in jest.
But the frogs die in earnest.”
Joanna Russ buch The Female Man
Part 8, Chapter 10 (p. 196)
Quelle: Fiction, The Female Man (1975)
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Joanna Russ buch How to Suppress Women's Writing
Quelle: How to Suppress Women's Writing
Joanna Russ buch The Female Man
Part 9, Chapter 4 (p. 206)
Quelle: Fiction, The Female Man (1975)
Kontext: Remember: 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 adapted version of the heroes I admire. I want to be the heroes themselves.
What future is there for a female child who aspires to being Humphrey Bogart?
“Ignorance is not bad faith. But persistence in ignorance is.”
Joanna Russ buch How to Suppress Women's Writing
Quelle: How to Suppress Women's Writing
killing people is bad
"Books" (review column), The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, December 1968
Non-fiction
Quelle: Fiction, And Chaos Died (1970), Chapter 3 (p. 155)
Part 8, Chapter 8 (pp. 181-182)
Fiction, The Female Man (1975)
Quelle: Fiction, And Chaos Died (1970), Chapter 3 (p. 120)
“I told him to open his eyes, that I didn’t want to kill him with his eyes shut, for God’s sake.”
Part 8, Chapter 8 (p. 181)
Fiction, The Female Man (1975)
“There are more whooping cranes in the United States of America than there are women in Congress.”
Part 4, Chapter 8 (p. 61)
Fiction, The Female Man (1975)
“Dismissing the whole thing as the world’s aberration and not mine, I went back to bed.”
Part 2, Chapter 8 (p. 25)
Fiction, The Female Man (1975)
“He wished his imagination would not take so impressionistic a turn. It never fails.”
Quelle: Fiction, And Chaos Died (1970), Chapter 3 (p. 110)
Part 7, Chapter 1 (p. 137)
Fiction, The Female Man (1975)
“How withered away one can be from a life of unremitting toil.”
Part 2, Chapter 5 (p. 22)
Fiction, The Female Man (1975)
Part 8, Chapter 9 (p. 191)
Fiction, The Female Man (1975)
Part 8, Chapter 6 (pp. 163-164)
Fiction, The Female Man (1975)
“Only those who have reviewed, year in and year out, know how truly abominable most fiction is.”
"Books" (review column), The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, November 1979
Non-fiction
“Fucking, if you will forgive the pun, is an anti-climax.”
Part 7, Chapter 2 (p. 139)
Fiction, The Female Man (1975)
