“Trust is easy to give but hard to keep also it's hard to achieve but easy to lose”
Russ“Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur.”
Joanna Russ“Trust is easy to give but hard to keep also it's hard to achieve but easy to lose”
Russ“(Only God can make a tree and She seldom tries, nowadays.)”
Joanna Russ, On Strike Against God“The demon got up. The demon said Fool. To think you can eat their food and not talk to them. To think you can take their money and not be afraid of them. To think you can depend on their company and not suffer from them.”
Joanna Russ, On Strike Against God“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.”
Joanna Russ, On Strike Against God“After the Great Depression and after public urging, a nationwide public competition was held to determine a design for a memorial that would honor President Thomas Jefferson's bold vision for westward expansion for America.”
Russ Carnahan“I also rise today in strong support of forward movement on the implementation of health information technology, which has the potential to save the United States billions of dollars in health care costs each year.”
Russ Carnahan“When you're good at making excuses, it's difficult to excel at anything else.”
Russ Whitney“If you want to live forever you are dreadfully dangerous because you're not living now.”
Joanna Russ, We Who Are About To...