We Who Are About To... Quotes

“To die on a dying Earth - I'd live, if only to weep.”
― Joanna Russ, We Who Are About To...

“If you want to live forever you are dreadfully dangerous because you're not living now.”
― Joanna Russ, We Who Are About To...

“Without meaningful work you might as well be dead.”
― Joanna Russ, We Who Are About To...

“Civilization must be preserved,' says he.
'Civilization's doing fine,' I said. 'We just don't happen to be where it is.”
― Joanna Russ, We Who Are About To...

“somebody called somebody else Slotface”
― Joanna Russ, We Who Are About To...

“If Earth had been hit by plague, by fire, by war, by radiation, sterility, a thousand things, you name it, I'd still stand by her; I love her; I would fight every inch of the way there because my whole life is knit to her. And she'd need mourners. To die on a dying Earth- I'd live, if only to weep.”
― Joanna Russ, We Who Are About To...

“A couple of times I tried to see my face in the water. I mean I think I did. But now doesn't matter, I'm just being, the most extraordinary freedom just to be behind your face and not cultivate it as if it were a house plant.”
― Joanna Russ, We Who Are About To...