Writing Quotes by Joanna Russ

Joanna Russ

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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Joanna Russ

Science fiction, as I mentioned before, writes about what is neither impossible nor possible; the fact is that, when the question of possibility comes up in science fiction, the author can only reply that nobody knows. We haven’t been there yet. We haven’t discovered that yet. Science fiction hasn’t happened.

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Joanna Russ

The techniques are all means of dealing with one simple idea: She wrote it. (That is, the “wrong” person–in this case, female–has created the “right” value–i.e., art.) Denial of Agency: She didn’t write it. Pollution of Agency: She shouldn’t have written it. Double Standard of Content: Yes, but look what she wrote about. False Categorizing: She is not really she [an artist] and it is not really it [serious, of the right genre, aesthetically sound, important, etc.] so how could “she” have written “it”? Or simply: Neither “she” nor “it” exists (simple exclusion).

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