"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."

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Source : Joanna Russ (2005). “The Two of Them”, p.8, Wesleyan University Press

Joanna Russ

#Adventure Quotes #Writing Quotes #Men Quotes

“Can you understand your own dreams, which arise with mushrooms' rank richness in the night-forests within your skull?”

Source : William T. Vollmann (1993). “The ice-shirt”, Penguin Group USA
“Vodka is tasteless going down, but it is memorable coming up.”
“Obviously, our children, who have been playing with their computers since the age of five or six, don't have quite the same brain as those who were brought up on wooden or metal toys, whose brains are certainly atrophied by comparison.”
“Hey, I'm for love, not war. How about we have a beer?”
“i have no point in procrastinating any longer..”

Source : Flora Rheta Schreiber (1975). “Sybil”
“We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory.”

Source : "The Heart's Domain". Book by Georges Duhamel, 1919.
“The single greatest gift you could ever give the world is to be exactly who you are.”
“I'm ambidextrous, I slap ***** with both hands.”

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