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You notice that some of the stuff by men that I would call certainly pornographic, Henry Miller, for instance, is taken very seriously. It’s all so obvious. When women do it, it’s silly, when men do it, it’s serious.

— Joanna Russ Journal of Popular Romance Studies (2011)

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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.

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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.

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