“(Only God can make a tree and She seldom tries, nowadays.)”— Joanna Russ Related Quotes “In a time of feminism taken into account, there’s a sense that if one’s choices–even in something as minor as a favorite chill-out show–can’t be rationalized, they should probably be kept quiet. As with most-feminist movies and most-feminist underpants, this suggests that feminism is a unvarying foundation of a larger system. It suggests feminism is something that either is or is not okay to consume, rather than a sense through which creators and audiences see stories, characters, and communication.”— Andi Zeisler “I am glad my case is not serious! But these nervous troubles are dreadfully depressing. John does not know how much I really suffer. He knows there is no reason to suffer, and that satisfies him.”— Charlotte Perkins Gilman “Men and women in their very essence -in their souls if you wish- have natural parity. (…) This was a relatively new idea at the time [of Shakespeare]. It ran counter to the teaching in the Bible -Eve’s being made out of Adam’s rib to be his helpmate -which was the basis for the idea, held for so long, that women do not have souls of their own but are dependent on their fathers’ and husbands’ .”— Tina Packer