Quote by: Joanna Russ

Leaning her silly, beautiful, drunken head on my shoulder, she said, "Oh, Esther, I don't want to be a feminist. I don't enjoy it. It's no fun." "I know," I said. "I don't either." People think you decide to be a "radical," for God's sake, like deciding to be a librarian or a ship's chandler. You "make up your mind," you "commit yourself" (sounds like a mental hospital, doesn't it?). I said Don't worry, we could be buried together and have engraved on our tombstone the awful truth, which some day somebody will understand: WE WUZ PUSHED.


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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