Joanna Russ: Quotes about women

Joanna Russ was American author. Explore interesting quotes on women.

Joanna Russ: 44 quotes0 likes

“There are plenty of images of women in science fiction. There are hardly any women.”

“The trouble with men is that they have limited minds. That's the trouble with women, too.”

Existence (1975)
Fiction

“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)

“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.”

Part 7, Chapter 1 (p. 137)
Fiction, The Female Man (1975)