"How withered away one can be from a life of unremitting toil."

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Source : "The Female Man". Book by Joanna Russ (Part 2, Chapter 5, p. 22), February 1975.

Joanna Russ

“This is how it is today: The teachers are afraid of the principals. The principals are afraid of the superintendents. The superintendents are afraid of the board of education. The board is afraid of the parents. The parents are afraid of the children. The children are afraid of nothing!”
“The moment when I can see a student's block, name the challenge and watch them become fuller and more dynamic in front of their colleagues' eyes is as rich a moment in a boardroom as it is in a ring.”
“Plenty of bad movies are very successful, and plenty of good movies are not. And distribution is so crazy, some films won't even get their day in court.”
“It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.”
“I think that the word 'ambitious' is still used in a derogatory way when it comes to women, in a way that it's not when it comes to men. It's a generalisation because not everyone is like this, but I think there's almost a love-hate relationship going on with successful women, where you can be a little bit successful and you'll be celebrated, but don't become too successful because that seems to bring out the hate in some cases. Take one glance at social media and you can see that successful women don't seem to be treated with the same respect as successful men.”
“The one sure mark of a con, though, is the promise of free money.”

Source : "The $4.7 trillion pyramid: Why Social Security won't be enough to save Wall Street". Harper's Magazine, April 2005.
“First of all, I'm not the kind of guy that likes to rehash the show and so forth and so on.”
“I have come to think that capital punishment should be abolished.”

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