To act in a way both sexist and racist, to maintain one's class privilege, it is only necessary to act in the customary, ordinary, usual, even polite manner.
Joanna RussI once asked a young dissertation writer whether her suddenly grayed hair was due to ill health or personal tragedy; she answered: โIt was the footnotesโ.
Joanna RussScience fiction, as I mentioned before, writes about what is neither impossible nor possible; the fact is that, when the question of possibility comes up in science fiction, the author can only reply that nobody knows. We haven't been there yet. We haven't discovered that yet. Science fiction hasn't happened.
Joanna Russ