I think we ought to decide that man-hating is not only respectable but honorable. To be a misandrist … - Joanna Russ

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I just think that the only way we come to ourselves is through each other.

Joanna Russ

I think we ought to decide that man-hating is not only respectable but honorable. To be a misandrist a woman needs considerable ingenuity, originality, and resilience. A misogynist requires no such resources.

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I once asked a young dissertation writer whether her suddenly grayed hair was due to ill health or personal tragedy; she answered: “It was the footnotes”.

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Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur.

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Long before I became a feminist in any explicit way, I had turned from writing love stories about women in which women were losers, and adventure stories about men in which the men were winners, to writing adventure stories about a woman in which the woman won. It was one of the hardest things I ever did in my life.

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