chloe ross

“The amazing peacefulness, the astonishing lack of anger, the sweetness and balm of being at last on the right side of power.”
― Joanna Russ, On Strike Against God: A Love Story

“Unfortunately I know what will happen if we keep on; I’ll say that if we are going to talk about these things, let us please talk about them seriously and our fake Britisher will say that he always takes pretty girls seriously and then I’ll say Why don’t you cut off your testicles and shove them down your throat? and then I’ll lose my job and then I’ll commit suicide.”
― Joanna Russ, On Strike Against God: A Love Story

“The world was bigger than anyone could ever know. Maybe that was hardly a bad thing.”
― Bryan Washington, Palaver

“You’re strange animals, you women intellectuals,” he said. “Tell me: what’s it like to be a woman?” I took my rifle from behind my chair and shot him dead.”
― Joanna Russ, On Strike Against God: A Love Story