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Quotes from Backtalk — Joanna Russ

1937–2011 United States

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5 quotes

Real artists, it seems to me, are those who don't repeat themselves.

Backtalk (1993)

I often read something and I say, “That's a goddamn lie. I'm going to tell the truth."

Backtalk (1993)

Either you write what is essentially autobiographical or you have to do something else. You cannot imitate a genre which was intended to exclude you.

Backtalk (1993)

It's the people who are on the "wrong" side of the equation in all these splits who are making theory and doing coalition work and are absolutely crucial for our future.

Backtalk (1993)

The wonderful and terrible thing about politics in the very broadest sense is that you never know enough, you always find out more and more, and, of course, as you find it out, it changes, too.

Backtalk (1993)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Joanna Russ (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.