"I laugh when I'm writing. I feel like all my work is funny to me."

-- Micah Perks

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“I met people on college campuses who were defining themselves as genderqueer to express revolutionary feelings, or to communicate their individuality; they were gender fluid without being gender dysphoric. This phenomenon may be culturally significant, but it has only a little bit in common with the people who feel they can have no authentic self in their birth gender.”
“I stood still, a prey to a thousand thoughts, stifled in the robe of the evening.”
“In science one must search for ideas. If there are no ideas, there is no science. A knowledge of facts is only valuable in so far as facts conceal ideas: facts without ideas are just the sweepings of the brain and the memory.”
“Many great horror stories are period pieces and English actors have a facility for historic characters.”
“As an artist, I think it is important for us to mark places in history where we have made progress, to celebrate by expressing that reality.”
“Let us form one body, one heart, and defend to the last warrior our country, our homes, our liberty, and the graves of our fathers.”
“I leave comparisons to history, claiming only that I have acted in every instance from a conscientious desire to do what was right, constitutional, within the law, and for the very best interests of the whole people. Failures have been errors of judgment, not of intent.”
“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.”

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

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