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Joanna Russ
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“When one culture has the big guns and the other has none, there is a certain predictablity about the outcome.”
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“... chastity is not given once and for all like a wedding ring that is put on never to be taken off, but is a garden which each day must be weeded, watered, and trimmed anew, or soon there will be only brambles and wilderness.”
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“She didn't write it. She wrote it, but she shouldn't have. She wrote it, but look what she wrote about. She wrote it, but 'she' isn't really an artist and 'it' isn't really serious, of the right genre — i.e., really art. She wrote it, but she wrote only one of it. She wrote it, but it's only interesting/included in the canon for one, limited reason. She wrote it, but there are very few of her.”
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“To act in a way that is both sexist and racist, to maintain one's class privilege, it is only necessary to act in the customary, ordinary, usual, even polite manner.”
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“Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur.”
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“'Uncritical support' is a contradiction in terms.”
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“Real artists, it seems to me, are those who don't repeat themselves.”
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“Art is collective. Always, it has a tradition behind it.”
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“In any politics worth the name, 'I' can do infinitely less than 'we.'”
Joanna Russ, U.S. critic, writer
(1937 - 2011)