Joanna Russ Men Quotations

Sit a man on his ass with nothing to do but eat and the first thing that goes is his mind. It never fails.

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.

The trouble with men is that they have limited minds. That's the trouble with women, too.

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.

There are plenty of images of women in science fiction. There are hardly any women.