Her Smoke Rose Up Forever Quotes

“Man is an animal whose dreams come true and kill him.”
― James Tiptree Jr., Her Smoke Rose Up Forever

“Women have no rights, Don, except what men allow us. Men are more aggressive and powerful, and they run the world. When the next real crisis upsets them, our so-called rights will vanish like—like that smoke. We’ll be back where we always were: property. And whatever has gone wrong will be blamed on our freedom, like the fall of Rome was. You’ll see.”
― James Tiptree Jr., Her Smoke Rose Up Forever

“Before he could lose courage he flung himself back and slammed his sleep-inducer to full theta.”
― James Tiptree Jr., Her Smoke Rose Up Forever

“What women do is survive. We live by ones and twos in the chinks of your world-machine.”
― James Tiptree Jr., Her Smoke Rose Up Forever

“Hope is a terrible thing, it brings fear that the hope won’t be realized. Suppress the fear and it surfaces as symbol.”
― James Tiptree Jr., Her Smoke Rose Up Forever

“Nothing but the effects of dust and vapor in the thin skin of air whereupon she crawls wingless.”
― James Tiptree Jr., Her Smoke Rose Up Forever

“it wasn’t an angel.
I think I saw a real estate agent.”
― James Tiptree Jr., Her Smoke Rose Up Forever

“It’s an overreaction, my dear. History goes by swings. People overreact and pass harsh unrealistic laws which attempt to stamp out an essential social process. When this happens, the people who understand have to carry on as best they can until the pendulum swings back.”
― James Tiptree Jr., Her Smoke Rose Up Forever

“You carry despair as your gift.”
― James Tiptree Jr., Her Smoke Rose Up Forever

“the neat sign which for so long had read, THE CENTRAL PROBLEM OF OUR LIVES IS GARBAGE. PLEASE CLEAN YOUR SERVERS, has been changed: someone has taped over GARBAGE and lettered BEAUTY.”
― James Tiptree Jr., Her Smoke Rose Up Forever

“Brash souls made jokes about what must be mountains of unread spy-eye data stored who knew where and how.”
― James Tiptree Jr., Her Smoke Rose Up Forever

“When one man kills his wife you call it murder, but when enough do it we call it a life-style”
― James Tiptree Jr., Her Smoke Rose Up Forever

“Imagine, refugees in the U.S.A.”
― James Tiptree Jr., Her Smoke Rose Up Forever