"Ignorance is not bad faith. But persistence in ignorance is."

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Source : Joanna Russ (1983). “How to Suppress Women's Writing”, p.46, University of Texas Press

Joanna Russ

#Ignorance Quotes #Persistence Quotes

“Every single day, I get up and I say, I am going to live and not die.”
“Governments never learn. Only people learn.”
“Before Julia Child there was only onion dip.”
“I'm not white, I don't apologize for what my country did to become great”
“A sense of humor is a measurement of the extent to which we realize that we are trapped in a world almost totally devoid of reason. Laughter is how we express the anxiety we feel at this knowledge.”
“From now on, I pray like I mean it. No more hitting SEND over and over. It's changed my life. It has freed me from fear and opened up endless avenues for me as a writer, radio host, parent, wife, and friend. It has enhanced every relationship I'm in, starting with the most important one: my relationship with God. Real faith isn't praying without ceasing. It's believing that God heard you the first time.”
“We always do what's natural, only sometimes we shouldn't do it.”

Source : Alfred Bester (1974). “Tiger! Tiger!”
“I did not imagine that pregnant women were 'naturally' any more sensitive or exalted than people in any other condition; only it seemed as if - perhaps because we are in such a twilight state, a melting down and reconstituting of the self - there was more opportunity to hear strains from what must be the other side, the moral music of the sphere.”

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