
The Female Man

Whileawayans work all the time. They work. And they work. And they work.
Joanna Russ • The Female Man
Whileaway is engaged in the reorganization of industry consequent to the discovery of the induction principle. The Whileawayan work-week is sixteen hours.
Joanna Russ • The Female Man
What I learned late in life, under my rain of lava, under my kill-or-cure, unhappily, slowly, stubbornly, barely, and in really dreadful pain, was that there is one and only one way to possess that in which we are defective, therefore that which we need, therefore that which we want. Become it.
Joanna Russ • The Female Man
I'm a Man-Hating Woman and people leave the room when I come in it. Do they do the same for a Woman-Hating Man? Don't be silly.
Joanna Russ • The Female Man
This is the most important job in the world. That’s why they don’t pay you for it.
Joanna Russ • The Female Man
You cannot fall out of the kinship web and become sexual prey for strangers, for there is no prey and there are no strangers—the web is world-wide.
Joanna Russ • The Female Man
His contribution is Make me feel good; her contribution is Make me exist.
Joanna Russ • The Female Man
You never know what is enough until you know what is more than enough.
Joanna Russ • The Female Man
No Whileawayan works more than three hours at a time on any one job, except in emergencies.