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“Rational people,” said the man, “realize that their lives must be made meaningful. Meaning isn’t just given us.”
And Chaos Died (1970)
How withered away one can be from a life of unremitting toil.
The Female Man (1975)
Sit a man on his ass with nothing to do but eat and the first thing that goes is his mind. It never fails.
And Chaos Died (1970)
Fucking, if you will forgive the pun, is an anti-climax.
The Female Man (1975)
There are plenty of images of women in science fiction. There are hardly any women.
The Image of Women in Science Fiction (1970)
I told him to open his eyes, that I didn’t want to kill him with his eyes shut, for God’s sake.
The Female Man (1975)
Only those who have reviewed, year in and year out, know how truly abominable most fiction is.
He wished his imagination would not take so impressionistic a turn. It never fails.
And Chaos Died (1970)
The trouble with men is that they have limited minds. That's the trouble with women, too.
Existence (1975)
Dismissing the whole thing as the world’s aberration and not mine, I went back to bed.
The Female Man (1975)
There are more whooping cranes in the United States of America than there are women in Congress.
The Female Man (1975)
It’s still very much a different world for men and women.
Journal of Popular Romance Studies (2011)
In the field of science fiction or fantasy, morality—when it enters a book at all—is almost always either thoughtlessly liberal (you can’t judge other cultures) or thoughtlessly illiberal (strong men must rule) or just plain thoughtless (killing people is bad).
Remember, I don’t threaten. I don’t play. I always carry firearms. The truly violent are never without them.
The Female Man (1975)
“Well, hell,” said Jael more genuinely, “the war. If there isn’t one, there just was one, and if there wasn’t one, there soon will be one. Eh? The war between Us and Them.
The Female Man (1975)
It’s that idea of disguise that I find myself coming back to. You can really, in a sense, be anybody or anybodies, plural, in writing.
Journal of Popular Romance Studies (2011)
As my mother once said: The boys throw stones at the frogs in jest.
But the frogs die in earnest.
The Female Man (1975)
The amazing peacefulness, the astonishing lack of anger, the sweetness and balm of being at last on the right side of power. (p100)
On Strike Against God (1980)
Something-elses of the world, unite! (p19)
On Strike Against God (1980)
Nothing but machines left between people. Telephones, taxis, letters, the discarded automata of the modern love affair. (p63)
On Strike Against God (1980)