Quote by: Joanna Russ

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 training, the placation training. How am I to put this together with my human life, my intellectual life, my solitude, my transcendence, my brains, and my fearful, fearful ambition? I failed miserably and thought it was my own fault. You can't unite woman and human any more than you can unite matter and anti-matter; they are designed to not to be stable together and they make just as big an explosion inside the head of the unfortunate girl who believes in both.


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Author Bio


  • NameJoanna Russ
  • DescriptionAmerican author
  • BornFebruary 22, 1937
  • DiedApril 29, 2011
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist
  • WorksWhen It Changed; The Female Man; How To Suppress Women's Writing; The Adventures Of Alyx; And Chaos Died; We Who Are About To...; The Two Of Them; To Write Like A Woman
  • AwardsNebula Award; Hugo Award